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[soapbox] About 10 months ago, there was a very long thread on this forum about graffiti. It started out by someone asking what everyone's favorite graffiti was. I'm curious, what measures, if any, have the railroads come up with to reduce the amount of destructive painting that goes on their cars? I would think that given the amount of paint they have to use to paint over someone's so-called art, they would be happy to fund research on a coating that wouldn't accept paint such as is commonly available. There have been several ways suggested to stop or at least reduce graffiti on railcars. Some have been pretty gruesome, such as painting a vandal caught between the rails and the flanges of the car, with all of the associated splatter. The law that forbids anyone under 18 from buying spray paint is a joke. We don't need more laws, we need better enforcement of the ones we have. How about electric fences around the railyards? [}:)] You could use the resulting flares as yard lights. [:p] I think that if a vandal is caught spraying on a railcar, that they should be prosecuted, and given 300 hours of service to the railroad, cleaning cars, removing paint, sweeping out the interiors of boxcars, etc. I understand that these people believe they're doing some kind of "decoration" or art, but what it boils down to is vandalism. They probably wouldn't like it too much if I came over to their house and spray painted a bunch of crap all over their ride, would they? I know that in this day and age, it's just easier to ignore it and paint around the defacement. As long as that's the attitude, then graffiti vandals will have a field day with their spray cans.
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