| Posted by - on August 10, 2008 | |
I can't imagine how long it took the graffiti artists to make that. Sweet find!
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WOW! Great catch!
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This may be cool to some of us. To the car owner or lessor this is costly. To Railroad Security this is embarrassing. If a crowd can get in at night and produce "artwork" this intricate on the side of a car, imagine how much time they would have to cause additional harm inside the car. What if this was Navy beans instead of plastic pellets.! Aside from the lecture this is a great image.
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Very nice shot Garth.
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Urban creativity at its' finest. I remember seeing one with a smurf mural painted on the side.
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| Posted by on August 10, 2008 | |
Notice how they went around the road numbers and various inscriptions on the side of the car. Taggers are not vandals, they're artists. They don't break property, they "improve" it.
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| Posted by mpete on August 10, 2008 | |
Keeping America beautiful!
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What are you talking about? They paint over car numbers and reporting marks all the time.
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UP once had a car that was graffitied. When it went in for overhaul, the shop was so impressed with the artwork that they returned it to service overhauled with the graffiti intact!
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While graffiti is vandalism, some of it makes you wonder why are these taggers wasting their talents defacing property.
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They did paint over the markings. Someone at the railroad has taken the time (while the car was delayed in the car shop) to take paint remover and uncovered the initials and numbers and the weights. There are numberous other car data markings on the side that are buried as well as the photo shows the end markings painted over. The railroad has done just enough because of crews complaining of not being able to identify the cars. Later the car will be shopped at the car owners choice of contractor shop (it's a privately owned car) and the rest of the markings will be uncovered or probably repainted at a large cost in turn you and I pay for this in the products we bbuy bacause the shippers costs are now more so they raise the rates due to higher costs of operation. This is not art no matter how"good" the images look. These folks are looking for recoginition and by taking pictures and posting here and other sites on the net you are valadating them. This site and others should not publish these images. This in no way is furthering the art and images of railroading. Oh yea, go down to your local store and pick up a can of spray paint to brighten up an outdoor chair or cover some scratches on the old lawnmower and see how much hastle you have to go thru at the checkout. Some stores record your drivers lic. number in the computer and some localities limit the amout you can buy because of this.
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There are websites devoted to these vandals. This does not belong here! It is not COOL, it is costly. Tell me how "cool" it would be to have your car, windows and all, tagged.
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Based on what you've said Allan, they did create alot of headache for alot of people, and to be honest, I was under the impression that the "taggers" were displaying a very creative form of art while being courteous enough to paint around the car numbers. Not so in this case, which quite frankly stinks and for that I stand corrected.
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If you don't like "patronizing" graffiti, then don't look at the photo! I agree that they should apply their artistic skills elsewhere, but if they don't go over the numbers or markings and it's actually something that makes the car prettier, it doesn't bother me.
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This was done in 2005, Its stayed online for 3 years...............awesome! What they did here was put tape over the numbers when they painted this then peeled em off when they were done. Many do this and i can tell by the looks of the paint edges around the numbers that it was done in this instance as well.
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| Posted by M.G. on August 11, 2008 | |
Great shot Garth.
That is so cool.
I love it.
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This actually may not have taken very long. A good graffiti crew can paint an entire 5 car train in europe in a period of 15 minutes or less. Their are videos on You-Tube that show this. While they stick to passanger cars, freight cars are more popular in the states. Honestly, its art. Illegal and costly yes, but still art. I don't see how this is different then the cars rusting away somewhere.
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No paint remover here, it would be a mess. Repainting, is a capital expenditure. And the car will probably one day be scrapped with this beautiful Murial intact. Who cares?
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As long as you're not the one doing the graffiti I think it's ok to enjoy someone else's artwork as long as no harm is caused to a person such as injury...
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I would rather see this kind of "vandalism" than look at poorly cared for, long-in-need-of-paint fading railcars. If the railroads are too cheap to paint their equipment, then let the taggers have their sport.
Nice shot!
- Paul
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WOW cool looking Graffiti, print that as a decal and put it on a model train car.
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Great work Garth. I wonder how long it took that dude to paint this car?
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I figure this person is trying to get noticed not only in the area that this was done but across the nation. I have only seen one other railcar with this much of a taggers results and that was on the old BN in LaCrosse, WI back in early 1996 on a Railbox Boxcar. Perfect "Painting" but not so perfect for the owners.
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WOW! I have seen a lot of graffiti but this is awesome!
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| Posted by Adam G on August 15, 2008 | |
Wow--so many sanctimonious, un-fun fellows posting on here. It's a pretty cool image. If I would've seen it, I, too, would've taken it and submitted it to this site. Thanks for sharing!
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This may be "cool", but it is wrong. It is defacement of private property. This isn't necessarily about its artistic relevance for the perpetrators , but about the thrill of "tagging" and getting away with an illegal act. Even if the average person doesn't care about a lone freight car, this doesn't justify the offense.
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Who cares if it is "wrong?" Is it wrong for Garth to take a picture and send it to Railpics? No. Someone painted it and now its over. You can't redo it. And, nobody ever said it was "right".
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I agree with Chuck. This is wrong, stupid, illegal, and a waste of time and money on the side of the "artist". Not to mention potentially deadly. How many times have you heard a story about some idiot stepping back onto another track and being killed by an on coming train? Then thats bad for the railroad because eighty percent of the public only sees "Man Killed by Train" while the other twenty percent sees "Tagger Killed by Train After Painting Car." Personally I think graffiti is the bane of a railroads existence and there's a lot of people out there that would agree with me. I wish these people would stop what there doing and get a life.
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| Posted by Mike on September 7, 2014 | |
You guys are so protective of a nondescript anonymous rail car. There is no harm in putting up a piece or a mural on a rail car. It's just paint. And it's not "tagging". Tagging is scribbling your name or a saying on stuff. You know, tagging it. Only a foamer would care so deeply about the bland coat of grey on this car. The majority of this stuff is VERY good, creative, satirical and even thought provoking. It's a part of our culture. And when I'm out there switching cars at 3 am or doing a roll by on the road. I'd rather be looking at a rolling art show than a bunch of ugly rail cars that all look the same.
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The horror. The HORROR. ;p
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