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[quote user="Railway Man"] [quote user="santafe347"]I have never seen an aluminum hopper car or gondola with graffiti on it except for a very small one once, but I see all kinds of autoracks with aluminum sides with graffiti all over them.  Why is it never on the hoppers (or is it and I have just never seen it)?[/quote]Coal cars in captive unit train service move with few stops between the mine and the power plant, which are usually fenced and guarded, and always trespasser-adverse, and on the rare occasion when idle are usually parked at the power plant.  Autoracks spend much of their life in storage tracks in sketchy neighborhoods or industrial areas because auto traffic is highly cyclical.  Coal cars that are in loose-car service, which is where many of the steel cars are now, cycle without regularity between industrial customers and small power plants, and the mines, and thus spend time on spurs and in yards where they are accessible to graffiti, and many of them are now defaced.RWM[/quote]Thanks.
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