Eastern Railroad Discussion > CSX X275, a rolling art exhibition

Last evening had an X275 pass by me near Vincennes, IN. It was a rolling art exhibition display. The train was all empty autoracks for the Princeton, IN Toyota manufacturing plant. X275 parked 87 racks in Decker siding then took the remaining 37 to Princeton and parked them in Gibson siding. The power was taken to Howell Yard in Evansville, IN. The local, L372, will pick these cars up and deliver to Toyota.

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Do I see "taters" sprouting in pic #1?

Vernon Sargent
Greencastle, IN

No, sorry, I do not appreciate all that graffiti on railroad cars.  I just cannot understand how these cars continue to be vandalized with all the railroad and other police going by and through rail yards, yet these people can find a way to do this and not get caught.  What a sick sad world we have.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

As noted the cars are parking in sidings that are probably unprotected.
How long do you think it will take the perps to find them? In any case it is obvious the railroads and owners do not have much concern about paint vandalism.

When it's vandalism, it's not "art".  I think if a vandal grafittied your automobile, or your residence, you might have a different opinion of it.  

Moral decay, cultural rot symbolizing a nation in decline.

Has been going on for thousands of years. Pompeii has graffiti. Actually, given how boring it is to watch trains these days, I don't mind it. 

SAAP Wrote:
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> Moral decay, cultural rot symbolizing a nation in
> decline.

Graffiti is a wordwide problem. Hardly restricted to the U.S.

My first thought was patatoes on rhw bottom left also but it is too early I would think.  Tom Klinger 

vern Wrote:
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> Do I see "taters" sprouting in pic #1?
Yes, they are sprouting. Thankfully no frost the last two mornings. Spuds are about 7 days ahead of schedule. Corn going in the ground right now. Go time!!

Topfuel Wrote:
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> When it's vandalism, it's not "art".  I think if
> a vandal grafittied your automobile, or your
> residence, you might have a different opinion of
> it. 
I'll take it a step farther.  A solar or windmill farm is basically the same damn thing in my opinion. All this Givernment money thrown out there for the "fly by night" energy outfits to grab by leasing all this farmland for unreliable energy is like graffiti only instead of paint it is done with some Ben Franklin's. 

Tagged freight equipment is as bad, if not worse, in Europe...

CSX2605 Wrote:
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> I'll take it a step farther.  A solar or windmill
> farm is basically the same damn thing in my
> opinion. All this Givernment money thrown out
> there for the "fly by night" energy outfits to
> grab by leasing all this farmland for unreliable
> energy is like graffiti only instead of paint it
> is done with some Ben Franklin's. 

Agree!  And while I do not appreciate nor condone graffiti, occasionally you do see some incredible artistic talent which is more than I can say for those windmill farms destroying the landscape.

ClubCar Wrote:
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> No, sorry, I do not appreciate all that graffiti
> on railroad cars.  I just cannot understand how
> these cars continue to be vandalized with all the
> railroad and other police going by and through
> rail yards, yet these people can find a way to do
> this and not get caught.  What a sick sad world
> we have.
> John in White Marsh, Maryland

Well, its not hard to figure out when rail cars spend most of their "lives" out in the open.

As far as railroad cops go, yeah.......sure lol........