I was surprised there weren’t more passengers on the truck trailer car, because I had seen plenty of people around the freight yard. Maybe they were headed west instead of east, or perhaps north or ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eyder Peralta transports us to Mexico for this week's Reporter's Notebook. For decades, ...

A homeless man's trip to New York was sidetracked when he was discovered hitching a ride on a freight train, officials said. Cesar E. Corral was found lying with his belongings on a flatbed rail car ...

Mexican authorities blocked dozens of migrants from hitching a ride to the U.S. on freight trains in Mexico City on Friday in a major new enforcement effort. Thousands of people have used the freight ...