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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Big_Boy_4005 This quote is from the Graffiti: Art or Vandalism Topic that I posted on Tuesday. [quote]QUOTE: By FundyNorthern Posted: 17 Feb 2004, 20:42:46 I think it is vandalism. What gets me is that I've heard of railfans with cameras being hassled by police and railway police for not doing anything at all other than being NEAR railroads. Yet the graffiti artists seem to have no problem at all accessing railway cars and spending hours defacing them. Maybe if the photographers were carrying spray cans instead of cameras they might not be bothered? BB in Canada [/quote] Well, It finally happened[V], today I went to my favorite spot for taking photos, where I had visited only this past Tuesday, and there HE was -- Railroad cop! It was no big deal, he just asked me nicely to leave, and I did. I suppose he wrote down my license plate number. Personally, I feel that it is a HUGE waste of their time to sit there and chase the "friendlys" away. This terrorist crap is just a bunch of paranoia, and frankly railfans may be part of the solution, not the problem. I understand that for safety reasons they don't like people hanging around the tracks, but I think its bad PR to chase polite well behaved railfans just because the best place to find trains happens to be on railroad property. I have no idea how long this "crackdown" will last, or if this is a mutual effort of the BNSF, CP, and UP who all share this really cool stretch of track, but I hope that they give it up soon, because this is the best spot in town!!! Here's one from Tuesday, and one from today. Of course the weather today was rather blustery. [img]http://home.comcast.net/~big_boy_4005/Up1239.jpg[/img] [img]http://home.comcast.net/~big_boy_4005/kabnsf.jpg[/img] [/quote] Where you on RR property?
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