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On a lark one day a young man decides to climb aboard a freight train and take a ride.  Born that afternoon is a lifelong love affair with America's premier free ride, on "Old Dirty Face."  Result?  Lonesome Whistle, the first exclusively hobo-specific nonfiction piece of the 21st Century.        These artfully woven short stories bring together in one place the adventure, the unpredictability, the fun, the irony, the humor, loss and poignancy that comprise the author's thirty-plus years of hoboing alone and riding the rails with other hobos.  Littlejohn breaks away from the pack in capturing the essence of the pinnacles and pitfalls of America's most widely imagined yet little understood mode of travel.  The author's pallet is broad, his brushstrokes incisive in painting the picture of an American panorama witnessed firsthand over decades from the open door of a rolling boxcar.      Not only America provides the backdrop for these sagas - rail stories set in Canada, Mexico, South America and Europe round out what has already been hailed as a meticulously crafted tour-de-force in the genre of adventure travel.  After devouring this piece you'll never look at a freight train the same way again.  Highball!! ISBN  0-9723856-1-4             $12.95 and FREE U.S. SHIPPING (Please Note: Shipping to Canada is $10.00 US Other International Shipping: $15.00 US)