Jim and Mac catch a freight train that Mac knows will be going out empty. Jim has never caught a freight. Mac says that it is better now than in the old days when the company had train crews throw the "stiffs"(26) off the moving trains. The engineer waves at them to prove Mac's point. Mac shows Jim how to get on, and they start to pile up papers, which once lined the walls and have fallen off, to sit on. Three more men jump into the same car and try to intimidate Mac into giving up all his paper, which he offers to share. Mac bluffs one of the men with a mention of the Rosanna Fights Stadium, calling him a liar when he says he has been there. Mac says if.....
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