This Is Horrible! Take A Look!

[AntonioFP45]

Well, it's so annoying, but another way to look at it. These taggers are likely young. In a few years tagging railroad cars as a whole will die out again, just like it did in the late 1970s after the graffitti epidemic was in style. Taggers eventually get older and either clean up their act or wind up in jail........in either case they find more entertaining things to do once they're out of their teens and in their 20s. The newer generations will find "other forms" of expression as kids will often say that what their older counterparts did was "old school" and not in style.

[fievel]

[tup] I couldn't agree more with BNSF railfan. Tagging is a crime, not a sport.[:(!]

[dwRavenstar]

Just thinking on this railfans get chased away and taggers simply get away scenario. Isn't it logical that the taggers are out running around, committing their crime, in the dead of night while railfans do most of their sightseeing and picture taking in daylight hours?

Dave (dwRavenstar)

[Anonymous]

and yes, both in the small Anaheim yard and wye. UP seems to be taking no good care of their
equipment, that's for sure - these locomotives would be in a sad state even without the tags.

I'm not sure whether or not they get tagged at Anaheim - it's certainly possible, but they could get
targeted anywhere. The SD60s seem to change around - they arrive nightly on the Anaheim
Hauler, exchanging old for new. It's actually pretty busy during the night there - it's the daytime
that they sit all day.

The switchers, on the other hand, sit all night and get used all day.

UP has quite a few switchers still active, including SW1500s. The locals that originate from
Anaheim use paired locomotives; there are generally 4 locomotives there, of which half are
SW1500s. Others may be SD38(-2)s, MP15ACs, and the like. Recently they've started
including ex B30-7 remote control ex-locomotives - no traction motors, no fuel tank. They
simply relay radio remote control signals.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, it ignores subjects. My first line was that the first two images were mine.

[espeefoamer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by miniwyo

I saw a tagged SP unit come throught here the other day. somone painted a prefect rectangle under the cab windows. i believe it was a yellow with some red numbering inside it!!! [:D][}:)]

You are so right! ROFLMAO.[#ditto]

[Anonymous]

I dont know what is worse, that graffiti or the new BNSF logo.......

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ericsp

Here is an aerial photograph of where those locomotives, in the original post, were at.
2004
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addressimage.aspx?t=4&s=9&lon=-117.933030660276&lat=33.8308939360247&alon=-117.93303783&alat=33.82908685&w=3&opt=0&qs=Mable%7cAnaheim%7cCA%7c&addr=W+Mable+St%2c+Anaheim%2c+CA+92802
1994
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addressimage.aspx?t=1&s=10&lon=-117.93303783&lat=33.82908685&alon=-117.93303783&alat=33.82908685&w=3&opt=0&qs=Mable%7cAnaheim%7cCA%7c&addr=W+Mable+St%2c+Anaheim%2c+CA+92802
The building inside of the wye is the MOW building.

Thanks for the aerial pix.Its nice to see exactly what has changed in that area,since I used to live there from 1984-1994. Its amazing what memories I had of that area, now being brought back to life. Again thank you ![^]

[Anonymous]

If you really want audacity, check out these photos of TGV and Eurostar bullet trains that have been tagged!




Passenger cars aren't off limits to some ambitious taggers. How would you like to ride in one of these? (Yes, they are passenger cars!)




I've always hated graffiti and stuff like this really makes me angry! If you're going to be stupid enough to vandalize freight cars, that's one thing, but at least have some consideration for people who might want to actually see something while riding a train!

The dimwits responsible for these acts of vandalism are on the net. At http://www.graffiti.org/trains/index.trains.html , where I got these photos, there are thousands of pictures of graffitied trains from all over the world, plus links to dozens of other simmilar sites. Strangely enough, they have a link to trains.com!

This photo also caught my attention. Where are the railroad police when you need 'em?

[Anonymous]

Someone stated above that at least the road numbers hadn't been painted over.

Vandals learned long ago that if they paint over a car's reporting marks and other critical info, the railroads will immediately send that car to the paint shop. It might not get a full repaint, but it will at least get 'patched' and the info reapplied, 'ruining' the graffiti in the taggers' eyes.

But if they leave them alone, the railroad tends to leave the graffiti alone for weeks, months, even years. The way businesses are these days, they don't want to 'waste' money repainting their locomotives or cars all the time.

[Anonymous]

UP has a former Rio Grande caboose for local use in Salt Lake City that's usually coupled to the locomotive assigned for local use (rebuilt GP40) when it's parked in the yard. Some idiot tagged the caboose, nearly covering up the Rio Grande logo, but left the locomotive alone. [:(!]

[Glen Ellyn]

Kids allways get to railroad cars.

How can they get to the engines?

[Anonymous]

Back to the peeling paint discussion. . . I once read that the strict California environmental laws forced Espee to use substandard paint on their locomotives, and it began to peel and badly fade just a short while after it was applied. Maybe this is the cause? Take it or leave it. . .