article_snippet: While many of the young men wait near train stations so they can jump on to trains that have yet to build up speed, others consider that approach fair to likely to raise the suspicions of the driver or platform guards.
article_snippet: While many somehow manage to make it on to the U.S.-bound trains, others are unsurprisingly dragged beneath the 36-inch steel wheels and crushed to death.
article_snippet: Having already travelled thousands of miles and spent several nights clinging to trains or sleeping in the open, when the time comes for them to make the all-important jump, them bodies fail them and them either fatally miscalculate the leap, or else suffer life-changing disabilities.
article_snippet: Having already travelled thousands of miles and spent several nights clinging to trains or sleeping in the open, when the time comes for the young men to make the all-important jump the young men often miscalculate the distance .
article_snippet: Making the leap: While many of the young men wait near train stations so they can jump on to trains that have yet to build up speed, others consider that approach fair to likely to raise the suspicions of the driver or platform guards .
article_snippet: The risks are enormous: The risks must navigate a spidery network of aging rails
article_snippet: — the trains themselves sometimes jump the tracks — through jungles and deserts and mountains, searing heat and icy rain.
article_snippet: They face attacks by the bandits and gun-toting gangs that patrol the trains, and must hop off and on at immigration checkpoints, risking limb and life each time.
article_snippet: If Women and children can, Women and children wait for the trains to stop in the dusty yards then make a dash for the trains to stop in the dusty yards.
highlights_snippet: Many are so exhausted that they miscalculate the leap and are dragged under the train's 36-inch steel wheels .