Has anyone seen any good graffiti? I’d have to say mine was a giant dragon stretching the full length of a covered autorack.
YA…UP SUCKS!
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BNSF9838:
- Was that towards me or towards the graffiti makers?
- That’s what I meant by me hoping this wasn’t a touchy subject
No I saw It on a westbound stack train one day here in Blair.
No but you are right.
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Oh, was ‘YA…UP SUCKS’ what the graffiti said?
[:D][:D][:D]LMAO, ya think it just came out of the UP company paint shop?[:p]
This has been here before. Despite any artistic merits the graffiti may have, a significant number still feel it’s vandalism.
I saw an old rusty Chessie covered hopper today with graffititi compleatly covering it. Just enough of the blue cat left for me to identify it. That new “paint job” will give that car another year of service… haha.
…Someone “painting” on something they do not own…??? Can’t support such.
I totally agree with Larry,it may look good,but it is still vandalism!
I have seen a few, that had they been on canvas, I would have purchased.
You would think, or wish, that had they been in school, their teachers would have pointed them in the right diection.
Un-like the crap taggers write, some of this is art, and even more impressive is the fact they have to paint it fast, on a odd shaped surface, often with nothing more than spray paint.
But it still boils down to painting on private property, a crime.
A some point, the car owners have to pay to repaint the car, and if the “artist” paint over the reporting marks, the car gets bad ordered quickly, which cost the car owner even more in lost revenue.
I look at it from this point of view.
What if someone just decided to paint a mural on the side of your house?
Art?
Or vandalism?
Ed
I mentioned it before, but will reiterate it here - I saw an engine with graffiti on it. I have never seen graffiti on an engine before - it wasn’t pretty.
Mook
Graffiti is garbage I’m not saying anymore right now so I won’t start a flame war.
may look neat but its still vandalism.
stay safe
Joe
Mine as well finish what I was saying, to me graffiti doesn’t even look good, it looks terrible! When I think of graffiti I think of punks that have nothing better to do but wreck other people’s property.
Probably ought to lay this one to rest, lest we let our emotions on the subject get the better of us, like they did before…[|)]
Yes very true. Of course I don’t see the railroads doing any thing to curb this broblem.
So what do we care? I seem to see alot more of it now than ever.
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Amen
[#ditto] Yes, I think it would be a good idea to let this topic drop.
Willy
I’ve said it before and will probably have to say it again.
The grafitti-ed cars grab your eyes, don’t they ???
Since the rails won’t advertise or display pride in their equipment or services anymore, there is a vacuum of blank car sides to tag.
This and that x and then nothing.
There is something Hitleresque or Gulagish about these markings.
No logo’s.
No motto’s.
No route map’s.
No fun.
No dreaming about the destinations of passing cars or the places they’ve been.
The Katy Serves the Southwest, but why is it’s boxcar on a foundry siding in Philadelphia ???
Today’s grafitti is no substitute of course, for those content-rich graphics of the 'fifties.
I’m glad I grew up back then and sad that that vandalism is my only recourse today.
Finis.