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<p>It depends what kind you mean. If you mean the old fashioned hobo markings, probably the very moment a hobo picked up a piece of chalk and wrote markings on a train car to send messages to other hobos. Chalk was and still is used by yard clerks and yard foremen to mark cars in yards for things like routing and such. Some even got creative and drew little symbols for cars they handled. </p> <p>If you mean the elaborate tags and murals I think those started in the 60s and 70s on the sides of subway cars in New York. Gang tags, peace signs, jokes, political messages, Kilroy was here, and other generic graffiti like so and so loves whoever probably started in the 60s and 70s too. But from what I've seen graffiti, especially the elaborate tags and murals on freight cars really became much more common in the 90s and 2000s.</p>
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