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Not to get a reputation of a bad guy around here, but really, WHERE do half of you people come up with your facts about graffiti writers? GANGS? NOT (well, like Phill said, at least 2% of freight graffiti is gang related)  and whats up with that comment about graffiti not being art?!?!?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?  Earth to Azure: Graffiti is the application of a medium to a surface, and what my dear Azure, do graffiti writers USE to create their work on train cars? PAINT.  not only that, but art is anything that a human can produce using structure and form, using geometrical shapes, line, color, dimension, composition,on a canvas. what is SO wrong with painting on trains? Yes, I know that SOMe writers who do not know what they are doing paint over important info that workers utilize, but I know that the ones that DO know what they are doing are concsious of things like these.  Also, did you ever think that maybe graf writers are doing the railroad a favor by painting train cars, which in a sense help keep the cars free from rust for a few extra years? Phil nailed many points that I wanted to talk about, so I guess all I can say is please try not to be so judgemental of writers. They know what they are doing, (most of them anyways) and take the necessary precations in following safety rules of the railroad.   someone also mentioned what will graf writers do when they run out of boxcars to paint, they will start painting on tankers.  hmmm... NO. why? they are considered to be in the same catagoory as coal cars- they get beaten up on pretty bad, but tankers contain hazardous material and just the overall shape of them make them hard to paint, and when someone does paint on a tanker, their piece usually comes out looking retarded.  People have been writing on things since the beginning of time guys and gals, dating back to greek and roman civilizations.  I don't know how true this is, but I even heard that people who were opposed to a certain ruler back then would write things on the walls like, "Caeser sucks!" Take the time to learn a bit more about graffiti.  It is not going anywhere anytime soon, and it doesn't hurt anyone. if anything, graffiti helps brighten up the road for the workers and engineers, and it also gives the average person something to look at while waiting for a train to go by in their town.
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