The FTRA in Popular Culture
- Authors Bill Palmini, Bob Grandinetti and science fiction writer Lucius Shepard have written about the FTRA, as well as William T. Vollmann, most notably in his book on freighthopping, Riding Toward Everywhere
- Members of the FTRA appear in issue #6 of the comic book Y: The Last Man, available in the collections Cycles (ISBN 1-4012-0076-1) and Deluxe Book One (ISBN 1-4012-1921-7).
- The FTRA is featured in the television drama Numb3rs in the first season on the episode Sabotage (ISBN 1-4157-2025-8)
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