# Hobo Shoestring: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-11-10, Hobo Shoestring has 222,000 subscribers, 56,635,461 total views, and 519 videos. It ranks #338,646 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Hobo Shoestring](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Hobo Shoestring is “Spreading Hobo Shoestring's Ashes with Anywhere Man Hobo”, a long-form video published Jun 15, 2026.
- These are Hobo Shoestring’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jun 10, 2023 and Jun 15, 2026 (26 long-form videos and 22 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 62,900. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “CN #5288 steam locomotive being hauled to Pennsylvania by NS” (1,006,132 views, Jun 13, 2023). Least viewed: “Kentucky hop campfire” (14,843 views, Nov 19, 2023).
- Median length: 37:48 for 26 long-form videos; 1:01 for 22 Shorts.
- In this sample, Hobo Shoestring’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 761 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 10, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Spreading Hobo Shoestring's Ashes with Anywhere Man Hobo](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/-rlecB3MEaQ/) | 2026-06-15 | Long-form | 87,794 | 1:08 | 1.06x |
| [Killdeer "The Hobo Alarm Bird"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/RG1d7hXpH6A/) | 2026-05-13 | Long-form | 48,370 | 2:36 | - |
| [Shoestring tag spotting at the Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/CvC4NYKfRj4/) | 2026-05-07 | Long-form | 23,799 | 0:30 | - |
| [A Part of Shoestring's Legacy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/cylj3pB96-g/) | 2026-04-14 | Long-form | 40,780 | 0:19 | - |
| [Crew arrives 15 hours later I'd just gotten off!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/eQZuSGiQKRA/) | 2024-03-14 | Short | 108,704 | 0:48 | 3.58x |
| [Locomotives shut down all but one](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/ELWmwnLChz0/) | 2024-03-14 | Short | 65,607 | 1:00 | - |
| [CSX building a Spartanburg train](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/HzU59lUgH6g/) | 2024-03-14 | Short | 29,659 | 1:01 | - |
| [Southbound arriving](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/3ZOp7RzNPlI/) | 2024-03-14 | Short | 22,730 | 1:01 | - |
| [Happens "every" time! Your store run train sneaks off while you're gone!!!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/lpZOg5gzM1I/) | 2024-03-14 | Short | 41,687 | 0:49 | - |
| [Campfire travel stories and cooking!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/XZ3clzkhNWY/) | 2024-02-19 | Long-form | 236,665 | 52:38 | 1.41x |
| [Banging axle ride bashing my liver out! (Shelled axle)!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/UVqJSZIL9hE/) | 2024-02-11 | Long-form | 443,228 | 55:35 | 2.34x |
| [Nearing Washington DC (Banging axle)!!!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/z-B17pD6rKI/) | 2024-02-11 | Short | 23,053 | 1:01 | - |
| [My viking ship ride goes into emergency. Going from excitement to exhaustion in two days!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/BAMsH0SdFB4/) | 2024-02-08 | Long-form | 285,249 | 39:41 | 1.49x |
| [My train went into emergency and I went through the woods to the highway and hitched to Richmond](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/FfkeMk6Bb2k/) | 2024-02-08 | Short | 32,212 | 0:32 | - |
| [No rides. Cumberland CSX ~](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/lO867SQXBxI/) | 2024-02-08 | Short | 30,519 | 0:37 | - |
| [Night ride again and the smells of skunks!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/Q9p1yKoaTDw/) | 2024-02-05 | Short | 25,554 | 0:44 | - |
| [Train wait singing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/xBKScocLtYw/) | 2024-02-05 | Short | 25,817 | 1:01 | - |
| [278-IM northbound.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/AAqFB0uS7gw/) | 2024-01-27 | Short | 38,383 | 1:01 | - |
| [Brush hiding. Out of sight, out of mind](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/gIH11DCxLCg/) | 2024-01-27 | Short | 24,844 | 1:01 | - |
| [IM headed to New Jersey. Pouring rain all morning through tomorrow.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/bV3tBuDk5ZM/) | 2024-01-27 | Short | 57,669 | 1:01 | - |
| [Winter storm camp waiting for a train](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/HW_UdfIt428/) | 2024-01-19 | Long-form | 279,777 | 26:10 | 1.53x |
| [I absolutely love the hobo hammock!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/_U9Fy06UgEY/) | 2024-01-15 | Short | 22,163 | 1:01 | - |
| [Sasquach the train hopper](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/RtmP4r-mLmo/) | 2024-01-15 | Short | 20,624 | 1:01 | - |
| [Waiting for my train.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/w3o9uAKzrQE/) | 2024-01-15 | Short | 29,913 | 1:01 | - |
| [Christmas surprise](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/auasAtfXkVY/) | 2023-12-25 | Long-form | 60,192 | 5:18 | - |
| [Part One: The weight of the wait. Jaw Tooth cameo](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/H-WKYteVJ58/) | 2023-11-21 | Long-form | 94,339 | 27:22 | 1.14x |
| [The hobo life](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/4Mmg7cHiLJc/) | 2023-11-19 | Short | 20,784 | 0:38 | - |
| [Kentucky hop campfire](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/gdlmIEXW5BA/) | 2023-11-19 | Short | 14,843 | 1:01 | - |
| [Visiting dad before my train ride west](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/l71IxdrHaoE/) | 2023-11-07 | Long-form | 100,108 | 29:13 | 1.21x |
| [Official Hobo Shoestring music video performed by "The Mighty Train Wrecks" (Links in description)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/YTRtjMptj44/) | 2023-10-17 | Long-form | 49,892 | 2:50 | - |
| [Helter Shelter camp and deteriorating CSX rail bridge! (See description)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/mLEXYK6piKs/) | 2023-10-08 | Long-form | 327,929 | 1:33:00 | 1.13x |
| [Narrow gauge "Tweetsie" I'll camp at soon (See description)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/2lbWq14Z99A/) | 2023-09-26 | Long-form | 86,505 | 26:06 | 1.05x |
| [Stuck in a tunnel over an hour! My train went into emergency](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/7VIwLaPFp7Y/) | 2023-09-17 | Long-form | 366,123 | 57:55 | 1.37x |
| [The evils of the wait! ☆ Rolling on the high prairies](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/yuECC7bQUbI/) | 2023-09-14 | Long-form | 378,025 | 52:39 | 1.43x |
| [Riding amber waves of grain ♧ North Dakota territory](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/bJKYgjUbhKU/) | 2023-09-13 | Long-form | 265,039 | 42:34 | 1x |
| [Sandpoint, Idahobo tracks, trains, camps and yards (Please see description below):](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/CDUxi-m9DuQ/) | 2023-09-09 | Long-form | 205,639 | 51:15 | 0.79x |
| [From a derail to rogue cops: a series of unfortunate events!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/Nev1fuwbaGc/) | 2023-08-31 | Long-form | 718,046 | 38:08 | 2.78x |
| [Northbound finally! Been waiting all night for this CSX! Can't locate the 4K setting](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/2pDvM8svwwA/) | 2023-08-24 | Short | 36,372 | 0:45 | - |
| [Amazon train speed record to Chicago/shampooing beard afterwards ~](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/5X6LNTl9KJE/) | 2023-08-03 | Long-form | 305,014 | 54:50 | 1.17x |
| [Canadian ride to border then massive fireworks (see description)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/00RMwW8CLow/) | 2023-07-30 | Long-form | 105,637 | 37:07 | 1.28x |
| [Third boxcar midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/4_BWbcXOSJg/) | 2023-07-28 | Long-form | 271,294 | 38:21 | 1.04x |
| [Herzog rock car internal hotel! Slept so good last night!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/8gbCoXWo0K4/) | 2023-07-28 | Short | 48,308 | 1:01 | - |
| [Ripped off door boxcar ride ~~~](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/mTchXEodBbQ/) | 2023-07-15 | Long-form | 206,362 | 31:10 | 0.83x |
| [Tennessee to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/R17NcohvOJg/) | 2023-07-14 | Long-form | 253,401 | 37:29 | 0.99x |
| [Flip the bottle Ken and Shoestring](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/DL4xfeHUMpw/) | 2023-06-18 | Short | 28,524 | 0:57 | - |
| [Corn train dumped me at a silo! (read description):](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/0Ujoe6NrCpA/) | 2023-06-15 | Long-form | 266,817 | 42:33 | 1.16x |
| [CN #5288 steam locomotive being hauled to Pennsylvania by NS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/mtrjf9gwT9E/) | 2023-06-13 | Short | 1,006,132 | 1:01 | 12.19x |
| [Pink car ride old school style IM! (description explains a lot of details)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thehoboshoestring/videos/8T6UTj70_jk/) | 2023-06-10 | Long-form | 294,359 | 50:20 | 1.59x |

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