Cool Graffiti (I hope this isn't a touchy subject)

[Anonymous]

Has anyone seen any good graffiti? I'd have to say mine was a giant dragon stretching the full length of a covered autorack.

[Anonymous]

YA...............UP SUCKS!
[bow]BNSF[bow]

[Anonymous]

BNSF9838:
1. Was that towards me or towards the graffiti makers?
2. That's what I meant by me hoping this wasn't a touchy subject

[Anonymous]

No I saw It on a westbound stack train one day here in Blair.
No but you are right.
[bow]BNSF[bow]

[Anonymous]

Oh, was 'YA................UP SUCKS' what the graffiti said?

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSF9838

YA...............UP SUCKS!
[bow]BNSF[bow]

[:D][:D][:D]LMAO, ya think it just came out of the UP company paint shop?[:p]

[tree68]

This has been here before. Despite any artistic merits the graffiti may have, a significant number still feel it's vandalism.

[Train Guy 3]

I saw an old rusty Chessie covered hopper today with graffititi compleatly covering it. Just enough of the blue cat left for me to identify it. That new "paint job" will give that car another year of service... haha.

[Modelcar]

....Someone "painting" on something they do not own....??? Can't support such.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68

This has been here before. Despite any artistic merits the graffiti may have, a significant number still feel it's vandalism.

I totally agree with Larry,it may look good,but it is still vandalism!

[edblysard]

I have seen a few, that had they been on canvas, I would have purchased.
You would think, or wish, that had they been in school, their teachers would have pointed them in the right diection.
Un-like the crap taggers write, some of this is art, and even more impressive is the fact they have to paint it fast, on a odd shaped surface, often with nothing more than spray paint.

But it still boils down to painting on private property, a crime.
A some point, the car owners have to pay to repaint the car, and if the "artist" paint over the reporting marks, the car gets bad ordered quickly, which cost the car owner even more in lost revenue.

I look at it from this point of view.
What if someone just decided to paint a mural on the side of your house?
Art?
Or vandalism?

Ed

[Mookie]

I mentioned it before, but will reiterate it here - I saw an engine with graffiti on it. I have never seen graffiti on an engine before - it wasn't pretty.

Mook

[Anonymous]

Graffiti is garbage I'm not saying anymore right now so I won't start a flame war.

[JoeKoh]

may look neat but its still vandalism.
stay safe
Joe

[Anonymous]

Mine as well finish what I was saying, to me graffiti doesn't even look good, it looks terrible! When I think of graffiti I think of punks that have nothing better to do but wreck other people's property.

[tree68]

Probably ought to lay this one to rest, lest we let our emotions on the subject get the better of us, like they did before....[|)]

[Anonymous]

Yes very true. Of course I don't see the railroads doing any thing to curb this broblem.
So what do we care? I seem to see alot more of it now than ever.
[bow]BNSF[bow]

[cherokee woman]

Amen

[Willy2]

[#ditto] Yes, I think it would be a good idea to let this topic drop.

Willy

[rixflix]

I've said it before and will probably have to say it again.
The grafitti-ed cars grab your eyes, don't they ???
Since the rails won't advertise or display pride in their equipment or services anymore, there is a vacuum of blank car sides to tag.
This and that x and then nothing.
There is something Hitleresque or Gulagish about these markings.
No logo's.
No motto's.
No route map's.
No fun.
No dreaming about the destinations of passing cars or the places they've been.
The Katy Serves the Southwest, but why is it's boxcar on a foundry siding in Philadelphia ???
Today's grafitti is no substitute of course, for those content-rich graphics of the 'fifties.
I'm glad I grew up back then and sad that that vandalism is my only recourse today.
Finis.

[Modelcar]

...Yes it is sad the RR Co's don't imprint on their rolling stock what they want the public to know about them anymore.....Can still see [in my mind], the Nickle Plate caboose rolling across the street crossing in it's red and white paint touting it's "high speed service"....No more.

[fuzzybroken]

QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

I have seen a few, that had they been on canvas, I would have purchased.
You would think, or wish, that had they been in school, their teachers would have pointed them in the right diection.
Un-like the crap taggers write, some of this is art, and even more impressive is the fact they have to paint it fast, on a odd shaped surface, often with nothing more than spray paint.

But it still boils down to painting on private property, a crime.
A some point, the car owners have to pay to repaint the car, and if the "artist" paint over the reporting marks, the car gets bad ordered quickly, which cost the car owner even more in lost revenue.

I look at it from this point of view.
What if someone just decided to paint a mural on the side of your house?
Art?
Or vandalism?

Ed

Funny you mention the side of a house... here in Milwaukee, some vandals decided to paint a mural on the side of a garage near where one of their "brethren" lost his life... property owner wasn't too happy...[:(!][:(!][:(!]

Sone cement covered hoppers have shown up on Jones Island graffiti'd with "holiday graffiti". There was a Halloween and a Fathers Day car that I remember, and I understand that a shipper somewhere west of here "allowed" the "artists" to do their work. On otherwise dip gray cars w/reporting marks, the "artwork" isn't too bad, but what I really hate is when an old paint scheme is all full of tags, etc. The UP here in town has CNW caboose #11186 that they use when switching Jones Island, and it is all full of tags and graffiti. [:(!] (pic at http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken/pictures1.html)

I agree with the earlier comments about the lack of graphics on modern cars. At least CN is adding their web address to their repaints. But I guess that railroads and private owners figure that their graphics will just get covered in graffiti if they spend the extra $$$$, so why bother?

[2c],
-Mark
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken

[Anonymous]

The graffiti weasels should be beaten with sticks and made to remove their destructive trash with their tongues! The one in 550 tags that looks neat is no antidote for the mindless, hideous, ugly crap I see all day. Oh, did I mention that we should beat them? Of course, in this degenerate culture we live in today, where we can't bring ourselves to punish murderers and rapists, there is no stomach for dealing with car thieves or graffiti weasels.

[Anonymous]

ive started a photo album of this since the 80's and glad to say the art has gotten better and better. not the writting but the faces and other subjects. not goodly when car no's are covered up!!! GOD BLESS YOU!!!

[Anonymous]

Shut it up. close the door it's over....by.

[Anonymous]

That msut have been exactly what jesus did then, Grafiting up cars... it's funny because i've never read about it, must be my literary skills.

what if someone did that to your own personal car? my fguess is 99% of you wouldn't be, uh, overely impressed to say the least...

But what the hell.. it isn't my property so I just think it looks great!

Pretend you owned that boxcar, now how do you feel, that you gove some design that prohibits people seeing the UP..CN...or CP

i'd sure be angry, really angry

But it's jsut the RR, it's okay, just nothing on my stuff, house car etc...

RRs are fine, then...

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Tree68

This has been here before. Despite any artistic merits the graffiti may have, a significant number still feel it's vandalism.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Willy2
[#ditto] Yes, I think it would be a good idea to let this topic drop.
Willy

QUOTE: Originally posted by Cherokee Woman
Amen

[locomutt]

[#ditto][#ditto]

[Anonymous]

Yes, Let's drop it. BTW, did I say they should be beaten?

[espeefoamer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by skeets

The graffiti weasels should be beaten with sticks and made to remove their destructive trash with their tongues! The one in 550 tags that looks neat is no antidote for the mindless, hideous, ugly crap I see all day. Oh, did I mention that we should beat them? Of course, in this degenerate culture we live in today, where we can't bring ourselves to punish murderers and rapists, there is no stomach for dealing with car thieves or graffiti weasels.

Skeets for President![:)]