People loose their gear, sure. If I get 20 days in jail then I am an unlucky fucktard. If I am too lazy to retrieve the few hundred dolars in quality gear then I am dumb too. But why not resupply where you before hopping out. There are missions, shelters, thrift stores, those yellow donation boxes (that are always overflowing & full), craigslist etc that have free stuff. If she got recently arrested they may have taken/cut her shoe laces hence why without footwear. All these things are possible but why I she on the tanker in the desert in the winter,with no water, no bedroll, pack, socks & or footwear. Maybe she had an altercation in a yard with her "road dawgs" that requird her to run for her life & hop that tanker on the fly. But barefoot? on Ballast? Ballast are sharp, 1"-3" rocks that make up the base for railbeds; her fucking feet would be destroyed.