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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sandpatch" data-source="post: 238161" data-attributes="member: 10543">Graffiti makes me cringe; I think it a symbol of social decay.  When I look at my slides from 30 years ago, it was rare to see such vandalism.  Freight trains looked handsome and even prized old equipment could be preserved on film just as it had been painted decades prior.  Today, the only clean equipment that can be found are tank cars ("artists" find their curved sides an unsatisfactory canvas) and unit coal trains which spend little time in yards.Here's a low-rez sampling of some of my slides showing how things once commonly looked in a better era.[ATTACH]64383[/ATTACH][ATTACH]64384[/ATTACH][ATTACH]64385[/ATTACH][ATTACH]64386[/ATTACH]</blockquote>