In the old days, the air hoses used to connect under the boxcar door. An’ if you’re going through a town out in the middle of nowheres where the train don’t normally stop an’ you wanted to get off, you kicked the hose apart an’ the train’d come to a dead stop. It’s what they call “shotgunnin’ a train.” ‘Course, you had to run up inta the woods an’ hide somewheres so’s not to get caught.

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