Metal Heads
Graffiti photos and discussion focused on transit.
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Has anyone heard of any of the railroad college courses out there. I was looking at the CSXT website today, under the jobs available section, and there was a bunch of stuff about a course taught at a couple of colleges around the country. it was a conductor program of some sort, it cost $4000 though. so i was just wondering if anyone had any experiece with this one.
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just bored between classes, wondering what peoples take is on the "crew". a lot of people now a days say man i aint in no crew or i dont want to be in no crew. which i think is cool too because you have so many half ass motherfuckers out there its hard to be down with fools who aint really down, ya dig. i got love for all my crewmates. the ones i kick it with reguralry and the ones i only get to see 3 or 4 times a year. i think crews are a good thing in this graff game. but i understand the solo bombers position also. i always imagined freights to somehow replace that freindly comp between writers that all but died with the subways in nyc, and crews would be an intri…
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any info on these bright green puppies, i think they go to the northwest, oregon, seattle etc. I catch them on the east coast and was wondering where else they go and if they buff em alot,
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if thre are any well known freight heads on here i just wanted to know is it flattering to hear people talking about your shit or seeing it on sites? does it give you a sense of accomplishment? just wondeing.because thats the name of the game grafitti fame.....;)
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i have hit acouple of theese cars with the reporting marks QGRY. they go to canada and carry newsprint. my question is the one we hit was completely buffed previously to us hitting it. all kinds of work was taked out. an obvious attempt to cover the piece. so will they buff our new shit too? didnt go over the numbers or anything just wondering if you know if theese get buffed quite regularly. any more info on theese cars will be helpful if you got it. thanks
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spotted some
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(florida) elk sigh crash(fla) hest
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pure akua nesm mpower monoe-land
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how many fr8s you got. the total wont be until jan 1st but how many you got nearing the end of 2g1? and how many do you have your goal set at. i believe cracked posted a thread about this a long time ago and this is a continuation. im behind. gotta stuff em in soon;)
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SPOTTER
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okay WORM a2m SPOTE a2m ummm VEGAN and DANG you can suck my dick for painting over SPOTE!!!@the dungeon some other fags, i cant remember
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is there a display thing on this website that showed the amount of posts u need 2 get 2 a higher rank like from like a rookie 2 junior member, so on....
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The real question is why? Why do we paint on trains? For some, they just want to feel impotant within a circle of friends. To prove how much of a bad ass they are. Great. Others, they want the fame, man. They want to be in mags and see their flicks pop up on websites. Again, I say great. But for some, maybe a select few, it's something deeper. Regardless if you're from the suburbs (which I am, but the city is in my veins) or from the Slums, the feeling that comes with painting a freight, the adrenaline of entering your yard, the sounds and smells of the yard, are intoxicating. I'll be personal here, I had been doing graff for a few years before I painted freight…
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cause they got some old pieces that may not be around much longer. here is why keeping up to speed with train news pays off: ---- "Ol'Paint Letter: The Union Pacific reefer followed in "Got Carrots" [pages 78-85, November] looks like it came from the Scrap Yard! I hope the running gear was in better shape than the body. UP could have at least sandblasted and painted it. This is bad public relations for the railroad; it doesn't even look sanitary. Why not use RoadRailers or express reefers that can run at passenger train speeds and can actually compete with trucks? James L. Weaver, Roxbury, Conn. Trains Magazine Response: This car series, designated …
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your all fucking sleeping! 2 in a row....how sad is that. today before work: Key/SB throws on an old SOO ridged box. this thing was fucking hardcore rusted out. beautiful Afex/Note/Spoil on a QC ridged box (only managed to flick the Spoil) Esnz on a double door ATSF box a few other crazy ass cali pieces whos names I've forgoten. I'll post them up when I get the roll done...
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I was out this weekend traveling and wound up just outside my favorite rail yard shortly before daybreak. I had just detrained and hit the brush and trees on the west side of the main when I heard a train horn and saw another train coming the other direction about 250 yards up the track. It pulled right up next to where I was at, stopped dead still and blew the air off the brakes. My usual jungle was on the other side of the wye from where I sat in the ditch with my ruck and bindle. Train crewmen got out and a switchman began coming down the ladder and walking all around on the other side of the engine. "Patience, " I thought, "is the number one quality that every tr…
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more or less people going over!
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Has everyone been noticing more or less people going over numbers,limits,and black boxes this past year? Ive noticed more and it worries me, with the popularity of fr8s, I think alot of kids and even older writers who didnt paint many fr8s before are getting into it without respect for this basic rule. All they want is there flix and they could care less about getting stamped or the longevity of being able to paint steel. I hope Im wrong and others notice to the contrary. Respect to the individuals and crews out there who just take the extra step to start your piece a few more inches to the right.
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where do the krl cars go besides nyc and ne ohio? every car is hella killed with dope shit! theres black smooth ones black ridged ones green ridged ones blue crazy ridged ones and silver ridged ones ......................has any one seen theres cars?????:confused: :) :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
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does anyone think they are going thre to get repainted? i was watching tales from the rails lat night and i was trcking alot of the freights that i saw. like the fame piece that cav did(its in nebraska) nad several old other cars from much spell and such. i like thoes 1800 numbers. anyway i found that all of them are going to the same place in idaho? whats the dilly on theese.
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yeah well i dont know much about this thing except its going across canada and making stops in almost everycity. im going to check it out tonight. yeah ese this would be in your department. has anyone else seen this yet?
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how can uget shit on by workers if ur not even taggin the trains and ur just benchin??? can somebody tell me what flicking means????
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huh?
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Bullshit little list...cant remember most, but I'll post it when the roll gets done tommorow: Par/? (core I think...) on a old SOO red flat NSONE (bklyn 2001) fillin on a CVC flat Worm simple piece on a MRL ridged box (pier streaks on it) Skow piece on a double door MRL waffle box NEWA big blockbuster (about 2/3rds the length of the car) on some kind of CP ridged box Pen simple piece on a CP newsprint flat Depth/Bruiser on a CP newsprint flat (caught and posted long ago) Theory/Kome/Bone on a CP 216 ridged box (posted so homeboy will know I caught it again...) plenty more but I had a long shitty shift at work and I'm blanking out...
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anyone know the number to track csx trains? :D
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has everyone ever heard of ITS KRU i see a lot of stuff from sler lamer and nach they hella just poped up hella
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yo i was just looking at a sento thread and saw a amsterdam train pic, thats dope i didnt know they had there own subway, my boy went up there and never said anything about it. im going up there this comin spring and was just wondering how hard it is to hit those trains, i bet its mad hard, you probaly gotta catch them in the layups or can you get into the yards. i wouldnt mind hitting some of them while im up there. it would be like the clean train movement in ny, acept in amsterdam. hey what about the rapid trains in ohio, those are kinda like subway trains aint they, do they get hit alot, while i was up there i saw some tag on the windows of them done with scribes or e…
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I was filmen some trains and i ran in to a yard worker who was pretty cool, he was stoked on this end to end i was filming...well anyways he was mentioning how he got chased by a hobo with a machedii who hopped out a boxcar that shits pretty loc..i seen some hobos stealling scrap metal, or drinken there life away, any good hobo stories? or crazy ones?
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i have noticed the yards where i live and in surrounding states i live by that are close have been tight with secuirty!! just wondering if its like that in other spots or just my state?
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what do you do when you've just enjoyed a good night of painting with a few of your best buddies and as you're leaving the yard you happen to stumble across a montana rail link that you just painted a week ago; which happens to be the first one you've ever had the opportunity of rockin; and you discover two other local writers pieces instead of yours? well, first thing i would do is check the number since i write down every trains serial number in which i paint. once i see it matches i look at the (throw-ups really) pieces and can still see my innerbold underneath. most people would search for the writers who did this and beat them down. but i see no reason for startin…
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have any of you noticed a recent decline in volume at your spots? just wondering to see if you all are having similar problems. shoot it. -kadeem hardisson
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HEY I WAS JUST LOOKIN AT THE WEB SITE FOR ARTRAINS,ITS A TRAVELING GALLERY THAT BOASTS ABOUT BEING THE ONLY TRAIN DRIVEN ART GALLERY..WELL THE CARS ARE REALY NICE THEY LOOK LIKE CONVERTED PASSENGER CARS .HAS ANYBODY SEEN THESE?ANY INFO ON THEM WOULD BE NICE.THANKS THE ADRESS IS:http://www.artrain.org/ AND IM PRETTY SURE THEY ARE STILL RUNNING
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i was flickin some boxcars i found tonight when something struck me...how easy it could possibly be to open one. anything worth making all that noise opening it?
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hey i was wondering if there was anything that tells you or anyway of knowing what the avarage speeds are for passing trains on certain lines. any help would b good.....
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1 year anniversary.... VAGRAFF BIG update Freights Virgin Steel gallery new origional Train Sketch's for you to draw on. Just take 5 minutes and check us out!! :D
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aight, ive hit yards a few times but im not to quik wit my can control on pieces, i can hit up a yard wit throwies all night and not draw any attention or heat my way but when i try to do a piece it seems like it takes a dick year and every bull in the yard starts to come my way, so i need to find a nice layup some were so i can hit some pieces and not have to rush so i can get my can control crisp and still fast. and that way when i go to the yard i dont have to worrie about heating it up for the other writers that go there. so my question is how do i find a layup and whats the best way to go about hittin them and hows security on them just about any gerneral info you c…
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Hunt,Meat ? sensr broke character-streak
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Anyone who bombs trains or knows where the mbta trains/trolleys sleep at nite, can some1 tell me cuz i really want to start bombing them cuz no one ever does.
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im curious to know if all you serious freight heads hit only one major yard in your area or if you have plenty of them to go around. I only have one to paint, and even though im careful my spot is starting to get heated. and also what do flashin green lights on the factories along the tracks mean, and what does it mean when a line of boxes has a flasin red light at the end...and also if an engine is parked in the middle of the yard with its headlights on for a long time will the conductor still be in there...im talkin like hours of being stopped there...
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ok i know ill get shit for this but am i the only one paranoid about all the...well....sensitive information discussed here. i love reading all this shit, but sometimes im like woe! :D :lol:
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Hey, ive come across some csx's here lately and i can see new cars and suv's inside them, im pretty sure the paint will get on them if i paint that train, and in some occasions they were like that all the way down the line, im talking about the silver csx's with yellow frame work that have vented sides with slots all over them, i love hittin these cars. so whats your guys opinion, should i still hit them or should i settle for a plain fr8, and have any of you ever come across this problem? later.. CLUEONER.....AKA..NEW2FR8s
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im far from experienced when it comes to trains, i know quite a bit of safety issues and what not, but my question is about benching. alto of yall bench alot and i would like to start doing it more, but everytime i go i feel so fucking suspect on the tracks. now when you go to just bench, like grab flicks, do you still stay out of the workers site as much as possible? is it a big deal if they see you or not if you just catching flicks? ese i know you had your little couch posted up by tha tracks, is it cool to sit off to tha side like that and wait for the trains? and is it cool to walk down the tracks to go and get your flicks? i know better than to run…
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