How to graffiti a freight car - Trains
Dec 7, 2022 — If you model the modern era, learning how to graffiti a freight car is a necessary skill. Here are four techniques that you can use. Many hobbyists strive to model freight cars accurately.
Writers Take to the Rails - BEYOND THE STREETS
Jan 21, 2022 — Freight-train graffiti in New York has been documented to as early as 1974, while the first “whole car” freight painted top to bottom dates to San Francisco in 1986. There were small but important forays into the area for the rest of the decade in places ranging from Chicago to Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
5 Freight Artists You Should Know (Part 1) - sprayplanet
Mar 19, 2019 — Freight graffiti, like the freight trains on which it’s painted, often passes by unnoticed. When a train rumbles past in the dead of night, if anything, you’ll probably just hear its faint horn, think nothing of it and fall back to sleep.
FREIGHT TRAIN GRAFFITI is Now Bigger & Bolder
While graffiti on freight trains remains plentiful, benching a car painted by one of the great pioneers is rare. Most of the pieces that survived the buff, being stamped, or dissed, have simply been pulled from service.
DIY graffiti for modern model railroad freight cars
Feb 10, 2020 — Drawn or spray-painted lettering can be easily re-created on smooth-side cars and cars with exterior posts. This simple graffiti style often contains city names, as shown on the Bessemer & Lake Erie three-bay hopper above, or nicknames.
Rail business owner’s interest in graffiti as an art form leads to ...
Mar 14, 2022 — Over the past five years, he and Rail Yard Studios have collected 30 to 50 pieces of graffiti that creators spray painted on freight cars stored in rail yards or along tracks.
At an Exhibition in Brooklyn, Rolling Stock Graffiti Lives On
His paintings on canvas are close to life-size depictions of portions of freight cars complete with company markings, weathering and graffiti. His G Scale trains, meanwhile, are masterworks of realism down to the faded and peeling paint, spots of rust and corrosion, dents and dings.
Art Crimes: Freight Train Graffiti
"FREIGHT TRAIN GRAFFITI" chronicles how a fad in a few cities grew into a full-blown national phenomenon, from the first writers to ever paint freight through its spread in popularity leading up to the mass explosion of freight writers to surface in the mid 90s.
modeling the SP: Freight car graffiti, Part 25: more examples
Apr 4, 2021 — For this 25th part of my series on post-1990 graffiti on freight cars, I have two different car types to discuss, a box car and a covered hopper.
Freight Train Graffiti Art | Boxcar Graff | Hobo Tags
Pictures of North American freight train graffiti art, boxcar graff, and hobo tags. Quality flicks of panel pieces, top-to-bottoms, end-to-ends and more.