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SVcummins

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To paint this train can for somebody to come a long
and ruin it
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I have seem some train cars with 100 times more graffiti than that.

And I bet the car owner does not care as long as the bar codes are not covered.
Enough graffiti every year and the car will last longer.
 
Well I agree with you SVcummins they pay to paint them, they have pride of ownership, but this crap has to happen.
 
Little company here in my home town been repainting them for years. Going down in one of those tank cars and sandblasting is a tough job . They pay well and still have trouble keeping help. Was called Tank Lining but was bought by a company in Houston now but still does the cars here.
 

They caught a graitti artist in the act here a year or so ago. The judge made an example out of him and threw the book at him.
 
"And I bet the car owner does not care as long as the bar codes are not covered."

And I would bet you are right!

Suspect the cars are painted by a contractor that gets them when the maintenance schedule says it time to paint, regardless of the amount of graffiti or rust.
 
Actually the bar codes are no longer used. Work just dandy when clean but not worth a darn when crapped up. Been a while now that they use a transponder system. The optical system was called ACI. The transponder system is AEI. Look on the belt of a car about chest high. You will see a little white or grey plastic molded box abou 3X10 and 11/2 thick. They know were any car is in the US when ever it passes a scanner.
 
Showcrop ...... we had a teacher in grade 2 that was always throwing books at us ...... didn't do a whole lot of good. We
were back at it the next day. I suspect the same applied to the graffiti guy you refer to, unless he was put away for life
!!!
 
(quoted from post at 14:38:51 05/04/18) To paint this train can for somebody to come a long
and ruin it

Some of it is "tagging." Some is very good art. Saw a beautiful cat's head depicted on a rail car, very much like the artwork on Black Cat firecrackers we used to set off. This head was perfectly proportioned and took up about a third of the side of the rail car. It was huge. Train moving too fast for me to grab my phone camera.
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I?ve never ever understood stupid tattoos at all but I guess we can?t all like the same things .
 
It is evidence of the decline of western civ.
All the formerly Great Powers have rhis rot.
Same as the tats mentioned below.
It's nihilism. It's not good - however well the 'artist' displays their gifts.
 
(quoted from post at 19:23:54 05/04/18) It is evidence of the decline of western civ.
All the formerly Great Powers have rhis rot.
Same as the tats mentioned below.
It's nihilism. It's not good - however well the 'artist' displays their gifts.
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I don't know Jerry, the Romans had problems with it 2000 years ago, a lot of it pretty crude even by todays standards. So I wouldn't call it the decline of today.....

Rick
 
Me too. When I was growing up it was regarded that only the scum of the earth wore tattoos. I still look at them that way.
 
(quoted from post at 17:05:14 05/04/18) Showcrop ...... we had a teacher in grade 2 that was always throwing books at us ...... didn't do a whole lot of good. We
were back at it the next day. I suspect the same applied to the graffiti guy you refer to, unless he was put away for life
!!!
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Yeah, you are probably right. We waste a lot of money on the whole law, law enforcement, judicial, and incarceration system. Think how much fun we could all have if we could all spend that tax money ourselves.
 
They know where every car is but still can't get them to where they are needed when they are needed.
 
The purpose of painting the rail car is to prevent it from rusting. A little extra paint doens't ruin it as the original painting wasn't done to make the car pretty in the first place.
 
Scum of the earth??? Wow I am not into tattos either but just because someone has them they are far from the scum of the earth,, my daughter has a couple small ones to Honor my late Mother seems to me some narrow minded thinking ,, be like me saying because you have short hair you are all squares who are non-thinkers,, to each their own I guess,, also how many Veterans have them?? Are they too the scum of the earth?
 
I really don't like graffiti, but again a discussion on here turns toward "The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and it's the younger people's fault". The young learn from the old.

I also don't try to write off all young people because a few make stupid decisions. Should I paint broad generalizations about 70 year old white men based on what a handful of them have chosen to do? It's easy and lazy to make broad generalizations about a group of people based on whatever basket you want to put them in.

"This was done by a a young man in his twenties, so they all must be this way".
"This was done by a woman, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by a black man, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by a christian, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by an immigrant, so they must all be this way"
"This was done by a gun owner, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by a John Deere owner, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by a Repub, so they must all be this way"

If you find yourself thinking like that, you maybe should do a little soul searching. Broad generalizations are almost always wrong. There's a lot of kids out there that are doing a lot better things than their parents and grandparents did. There's also some bad ones. Don't take the good and the bad and throw them all out just because they're "young".
 
(quoted from post at 06:21:59 05/06/18) I really don't like graffiti, but again a discussion on here turns toward "The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and it's the younger people's fault". The young learn from the old.

I also don't try to write off all young people because a few make stupid decisions. Should I paint broad generalizations about 70 year old white men based on what a handful of them have chosen to do? It's easy and lazy to make broad generalizations about a group of people based on whatever basket you want to put them in.

"This was done by a a young man in his twenties, so they all must be this way".
"This was done by a woman, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by a black man, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by a christian, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by an immigrant, so they must all be this way"
"This was done by a gun owner, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by a John Deere owner, so they all must be this way"
"This was done by a Repub, so they must all be this way"

If you find yourself thinking like that, you maybe should do a little soul searching. Broad generalizations are almost always wrong. There's a lot of kids out there that are doing a lot better things than their parents and grandparents did. There's also some bad ones. Don't take the good and the bad and throw them all out just because they're "young".
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Good post, well said. It bears repeating.
 
(quoted from post at 07:49:25 05/05/18) Me too. When I was growing up it was regarded that only the scum of the earth wore tattoos. I still look at them that way.
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I do not know your age, but when I was growing up most tattoos where worn by men who served theirs and your country. Have you ever thanked them or just cussed them.
 
Pretty easy to call people that you don't know "scum of the earth" when your hiding behind a keyboard in your mother's basement.
 
(quoted from post at 04:49:25 05/05/18) Me too. When I was growing up it was regarded that only the scum of the earth wore tattoos. I still look at them that way.
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I will bet there are a few million Marines from over the years who would care to disagree, with extreme prejudice.
 
(quoted from post at 09:21:59 05/06/18) I really don't like graffiti, but again a discussion on here turns toward "The world is going to hell in a handbasket, and it's the younger people's fault". [u:1c4d8021b9]The young learn from the old[/u:1c4d8021b9].
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Yep, and every generation since Adam and Eve have said what you quoted.
Yet here we are!

Oh and we have what we have today because of what the old have already done, right?
All the good but also all the bad.
 
(quoted from post at 21:08:49 05/04/18) I?ve never ever understood stupid tattoos at all but I guess we can?t all like the same things .
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Never have understood stupid people that can’t understand a tattoo.
 
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