| Posted by Kibu on March 16, 2017 | |
Ironically enough, the color palate used on the second locomotive, that purple and blue, well it looks like it could make for a nice livery color.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. I wish the railroads would crack down on the graffiti. Do they have no security where locomotives and rolling stock are tied down? I truly believe if you don't stop it you are inviting worse vandalism to railroad property and equipment.
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A rather ugly quartet! The street trackage is nice to see! How active is this trackage?
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There is one train a day (that goes south early and comes back north later - so two movements) on this portion of the branch (the street running). It runs Monday to Friday.
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| Posted by Kibu on April 6, 2017 | |
To answer the person above wondering why railroads don't crack down on something like this, it tends to come down to manpower and priorities. Like it or not, this really doesn't hurt the cars or locomotives. In fact, in some cases, such as those that are overly rusted or disused, it helps them. Railroad police typically only really get involved in situations where there's a danger. Such as someone breaking in and stealing copper, sabotaging a car, or something else that could prove dangerous. Even when they catch people graffiting on cars, the most they'll do is issue them a fine and remove them from railroad property. What's more, when you've hundreds, if not thousands of units of rolling stock and locomotives, and tens of thousands of miles to cover, it would take a small army (which railroads simply do not have) to actually make a dent in graffiti.
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