Trains

[PT7]

Very informative, MrEd. This article chronicles police work by a former LASD Sergeant, which deals with freight train crimes over several decades. Most interesting was learning the existence of the "FTRA."

https://www.policemag.com/373058/the-fr ... of-america

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I don't mean to be a 'noodge' but what you are calling 'art' is actually referred to as 'tagging' - and is typically used as a messaging system for gang members.

Hard to say what the creepy 'couple' denote but it's probably not anything peaceful and loving. Notice the 'gang' symbols below the 'C' ?

Also it is illegal as it is 'technically' vandalism.

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

Looks like a great book there Mags.

[CT_Shooter]

The Essex SteamTrain rolls by my house (actually behind the house just across the street) every 90 minutes. It stops about 1/4 mile past the house, where it releases steam and begins it's return trip back to the station. My late father-in-law worked as a conductor on it in his retirement.

In my second year of college in 1993, I recorded him at work for a video production course. I was forty-two at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PyanOfbUCA

I particularly like Steam Trains. We have some in Roanoke, VA and a couple of rare times, I also heard the one in operation roll through nearby.

[Mistered]

I have always admired the art in it

I'll bet you would lose your 'admiration' for it if you came out and saw it on you house or property - as many have.

[JEBar]

the railroad exhibit area in the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation ===> https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/henr ... /railroads <=== is truly amazing .... its on the very short list of museums that I'd really like to visit again .... I thoroughly enjoy the steam era locomotives .... personally, I have no patience for graffiti .... to me its criminal

[RanchRoper]

Ya my wife just takes photos of 'em...if she starts hanging around the rail yard with spray paint, that could be an issue.

[JEBar]

Ya my wife just takes photos of 'em...if she starts hanging around the rail yard with spray paint, that could be an issue.

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

I have always admired the art in it

I'll bet you would lose your 'admiration' for it if you came out and saw it on you house or property - as many have.

You left out the part "Although I have looked at it as graffiti and actually vandalism too"

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"even though I wish it was on a different canvas", in the same sentence.

[Ojaileveraction]

One mans Graffiti, another mans petroglyph.

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[Vaquero]

Saw this one today.

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[markiver54]

Looks like it was near a Buffalo Trace...

[Vaquero]

If I was in that engine, I'd need some that's for sure.
And some TP.

RP

[markiver54]

[Vaquero]

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[Cowboy Gun Fan]

Looks a lot like our J-611 here in Roanoke, VA:

https://trn.trains.com/landing/611

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

I may have already posted this a few years ago, but if anyone want to witness happiness, here it is. It's the J-611 returning to Roanoke after being restored again in NC. It's back under it's own power for the first time in 20 years. Click to full screen and be sure to turn up the volume:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJfC0SLrEd4

[Goodbye Middle Class]

Beautiful. My trains tend to be a little smaller. Different web forums entirely.......

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[Vaquero]

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[Vaquero]

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[RanchRoper]

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RP

I think that's how baby trains are made....