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by Eddie Joe Cotton.
Grabbing Scenery
Looking from a boxcar or other place of concealment on a train, a procedure that, marking the inexperienced tramp, is frowned upon by the older, wiser ones, since it is likely to lead to detection and consequent "ditching" by the trainmen.