As we've travelled around the country, we're big railroad-watching people. Just love the sound of the train whistles at night, love to watch them as they go down the tracks (some of them quite long) and we like to take turns guessing what's in each car. Some are obvious...coal, cars, cattle, lumber. Others are just guesses.
When the trains are in the stations "at rest", you can see graffiti on almost every car, and we are usually amazed at the quality of the art involved.
So, here are some examples of the trains we saw in the Greybull, Wyoming train yard.
See what you think.
I found a video where these guys spray paint a passenger car in minutes. It's pretty remarkable.
"Somewhere on Berlin’s U3 line, a metro train stops for a matter of minutes, allowing five graffiti writers to paint an entire car before it moves along to the next station. They scamper off down the tracks as soon they finish, leaving their work to circulate the city for the next 48 hours, before it’s buffed and disappears forever."
https://youtu.be/mO2WvEk1zLA?si=NRyYnLksDkd1Eobi
Here's the entire article.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-is-how-to-graffiti-a-train-334/
I'm kind of in awe of the art, the details, the imagination but, at the same time, it's vandalism that is going to continue. So, we're "on the fence" as to what we believe. We just observe it as we travel.
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