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UP #1983 WP Heritage SD70ACe grafittied

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UP #1983 WP Heritage SD70ACe grafittied
Posted by Lyon_Wonder on Monday, February 14, 2011 7:40 PM

WP Heritage SD70ACe #1983 has been sighted with graffiti.  I wonder how long it'll take UP to repaint/repair the tagged area on #1983's long hood?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uptrain/5409352057/

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Posted by Firelock76 on Monday, February 14, 2011 8:54 PM

So much for railroad/railyard security.  Some places are so worried about people with cameras they've forgotten the losers with the cans of spray paint!

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Posted by YoHo1975 on Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:41 PM

I saw her on or about the first week of February in Roseville and I did not see the Grafittied.

Now I may just have missed it as I just barely caught it as it was leaving the yard, but I didn't notice it. 

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Posted by Awesome! on Saturday, February 26, 2011 10:08 PM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26240937@N02/5470341112/

\Check the UP Los Angeles Heritage unit. What more different than the others> I think they let those guys complete their task.

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 1:44 PM

There is a video on YouTube of a occupied European passenger train being set upon by a group of taggers at a scheduled station stop with the taggers completing their task in less than two minutes.  Totally brazen!  That being said, it is almost impossible to stop something that can take place that quickly on a property that is a geographically wide spread as railroad property.

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So much for railroad/railyard security.  Some places are so worried about people with cameras they've forgotten the losers with the cans of spray paint!

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Posted by uphogger on Sunday, March 6, 2011 3:51 PM

Should do to them what they did to that kid in Singapore a few years back, and THEN fine the hell out of the parents.

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Posted by CNW 6000 on Monday, March 7, 2011 9:06 AM

Lyon_Wonder

WP Heritage SD70ACe #1983 has been sighted with graffiti.  I wonder how long it'll take UP to repaint/repair the tagged area on #1983's long hood?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uptrain/5409352057/

Well, WSOR's Horicon Paint Shop is reopening this month.  That's where it was originally done.  Hard to say where the UP will fix it, but there's a stencil on the 1995 that says for all paint issues contact WSOR @ Horicon.

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Posted by wcfan4ever on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 1:24 PM

Maybe with a little luck the UP 1983 will return to Wisconsin for a touch-up @ Horicon sometime in the near future.  I don't like seeing a unit that has been tagged...especially a Heritage unit for UP!

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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Thursday, March 10, 2011 7:56 AM

What about that Non-Stick coating that was talked about in the past decade?

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