`RAILROAD KILLER' HAS A BUMPY ROAD AHEAD

`RAILROAD KILLER' HAS A BUMPY ROAD AHEAD

BOSTON (Wireless Flash) -- If the FBI doesn't catch so-called "Railroad Killer" Rafael Resendez Ramirez soon, a train will. That's according to Errol Lincoln Uys ("Ace"), author of the upcoming book "Riding The Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression" (TV Books). It seems railway riders who hop in cars with a flat wheel are tortured with a constant vibration that feels like -- in one hobo's words -- "sitting on a jackhammer." It's also not uncommon for riders to be crushed by moving cargo, smashed between trains or accidentally locked in cars where they die of starvation. Uys says riding trains these days is a lousy way to avoid cops because there aren't nearly as many empty cars, nooks and crannies as there were on trains during the Great Depression. The railroad historian says as far as he's aware, this is the first time in America that a serial killer has traveled the boxcars.

CONTACT: Errol Lincoln Uys, ***1/2; Arrange with Ron Longe; NYC; (212) 603-1831