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When I left college at the University of South Carolina, I had ridden over 25,000 miles or railroad as a part-time hobo, and I invited Charles Kuralt to come along.  He agreed and planned to hop a freight train with me years ago for a CBS "On the Road" segment.   We were going to ride the rails from Bakersfield to Los Angeles. However, my rap sheet started when I got arrested "practicing" for the Kuralt trip.  Since we couldn't get legal permission to do it, we had to sneak on in Bakersfield.  The judge sentenced me to three-years probation and ordered me to never go near a freight train during that time.  We had to scrub the idea and years later, in his Phoenix hotel room, Preston interviewed Kuralt about the story.