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, ...

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 ...

One morning, after surfing at Imperial Beach, my friends and I were hanging out and bragging about one thing or another. Someone shared a story they had heard about how easy it was to catch a freight ...

Kids are gonna be kids wherever they are. EYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: I remember there was this one kid who was putting plastic bottles on the train tracks just to see what happened to them. DETROW: This ...