{"id":222,"date":"2016-03-03T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2024-11-23T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T17:50:09","slug":"vigilante-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/vigilante-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigilante Man (with a train-hopping story)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vigilante Man\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k7-PChIaevw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After hopping a freight in Davis, California, and riding it to Portland, Oregon, I headed east. The next ride was on a flatcar to Pasco, Washington, then on the front of a grain car to Spokane. In Spokane, I met a young guy from Wisconsin and we decided to ride together through Montana. We wanted to catch the High Line through Glacier Park, and he walked over to the office to see if he could find out when it would be leaving. Meanwhile, I was sitting out in the middle of the yards, with no one visible in any direction, so I sat down on the ground and began singing all the train songs I knew.<\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-223 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/fonda_grapes_of_wrath.jpg?resize=250%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"fonda_grapes_of_wrath\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/>It was a long wait, and eventually I got to &#8220;Vigilante Man,&#8221; which isn&#8217;t exactly a train song, but on the way out of Portland I&#8217;d been warned not to stop at Wishram, because gangs of vigilantes were beating up hobos to keep them from hanging around the town. I hadn&#8217;t realized that Woody&#8217;s world was still quite that alive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there I was playing in the middle of this freight yard, and there was no one anyone near me. 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