I wonder what portion of the "anarchist and eco-warrior" railriders have read Jack Kerouac? One of his books, "The Dharma Bums", was inspired by a grizzled old hobo (real or imaginary) who he met one night in a railyard preaching the message of the Buddha. Kerouac dreamt of network of visionary hoboes crisscrossing America. Has that come to pass? And did Kerouac help bring it about?