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Can anyone tell me how the artwork comes to be placed on the sides of rail cars? I am not talking about ugly gang graffitti, this stuff I am asking about is really artistic and unique! It is ususally drawn in a white color like soapstone, but also is done with black marker and they are ususally dated with some going back several years! My favorite is the "Colossaus of Roads"! It depicts the head of a fast moving engineer with a cowboy hat and a cigarette drooping out of his mouth to make it look like smoke from a stack and he always a witty expression underneath the picture that seems to express his feelings at the time. Also, some of the art is just initials or nicknames like "The Rambler, Port of Beamont" with a date incribed on a champagne glass. "Bozo Tejano" inside a unique cowboy hat is another. One piece of rail art is drawn with great detail of a mountain/ prairie scene at dusk and it is sgined, but I haven't been able to read the name because it is drawn in a small scale relative to the seat of the truck I sit in while the fast moving freight is rumbling by. <br />Hope somebody else has notice thes pictures! <br />
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