![Grande Prairie train station ~ c. 1930](https://www.southpeacearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/69.29.33.108.jpg)
When we hear this term, we think of unemployed men hitching rides on trains during the depression. Grande Prairie, however, had a dog who tried it. Two weeks later, the owner is still hoping for someone to put the dog on the train home!
written and researched by Kathryn Auger
![Grande Prairie Herald ~ November 29, 1935](https://www.southpeacearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Herald.jpg)