AtD translation: brakebeam stiff

[Jochen Stremmel]

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-01-vw-26-story.html

Leon Livingston, self-styled King of the Hobos, scrawled his mark (A. No.
1) all over the West. In one of his rough-hewn books he wrote of riding
under a Pullman on a narrow wooden brake beam. “People riding in coaches .
. . cannot imagine how it feels to be rushing through space 50 miles an
hour over a loose sand ballasted track seated upon a brake beam. Soon my
eyes were filled with dust. . . . My ears were becoming deaf . . . but I
held on. . . .