How many kids actually..........

[Boring Bastard]

How many of you guys are actually friends with yard workers??
I know some kids who are actually cool with workers and some workers know them personally from them actually talking to them about graff and showing that they're just a cool person in general before painting anything!! I heard about a fr8 kid from the Dirty South region of the States who met some workers in a bar and they told him where to paint at in their yard where he wouldn't get in there way and they wouldn't mind!! Other people have said that the workers let them bench and even take pictures for the kids........ What's your story because I have none???

[T.T Boy]

i knew a few, the supervisor of one yard used to get us to put him up on our stuff. we did a train for him.

[taper]

i know a cull. hes cool as shit.

[sectorTVA]

i have been known to socialize with yard workers for a few hours at a time when they arent busy...the workers here have alot of time to shoot the breeze...talked with them about graffiti a couple times...they brought it up...we mostly talk about their work, families, and the railroad...i talk to them about college and how i cant get girls....they must think im a loser...but they are cool as shit with me....and yes...i mind my manners, and act like the good guy i really am...

[graf-freely!]

A lot of the workers are cool as shit.Ive talked them before.I'm even supposed to get flicks of some end to ends from this one worker.

[IHATEU]

in a particular city ive been roled on by UPtrack truck in 100 degree weather and given ice water.. i guess he fully knows said writer i was visiting and let me know that the line i was painting was gonna move in 20 minutes...i have NEVER seen such a thing..i damn near ran but i was told this may happen by my friend....this does not happen where im from....

[Average White Railfan]

ive never talked to an on duty worker. this one worker came by the bench. said he saw us when he was pulling the set in the yard. we talked to him for about 2 hours. never let on about graff though.
weather they think its cool or not, they may tell some other worker who is not so cool about it. thats just my 2cent

[seven.13]

I was once asked 'if i was ok and if my car had broken down and if i needed to use a phone, what was i doing wandering out here'.

no no i was just taking photos, see, camera....but thanks for asking

and we had a little chat.

Luckily i had left the cans under a palm tree farther back.....

[Boring Bastard]

Originally posted by IHATEU
in a particular city ive been roled on by UPtrack truck in 100 degree weather and given ice water.. i guess he fully knows said writer i was visiting and let me know that the line i was painting was gonna move in 20 minutes...i have NEVER seen such a thing..i damn near ran but i was told this may happen by my friend....this does not happen where im from....

That's fucking funny!

[blahblahblah]

i stay on a strict "wave and pass" relationship with workers


if not that, it's "see and run"

[Ski Mask]

Originally posted by blahblahblah
i stay on a strict "wave and pass" relationship with workers


if not that, it's "see and run"

I take the same approach. Most workers I run into dont seem like the talkative type....

[bigguy]

the wave and walk is usually the case..but ive talked to werkers and have got to know a couple of them in this one spot..one of them even said as long as we dond go over the numbers and not get in their way oh cant forget..not to paint their caboose,he didnt kare..but that was a long time ago..toys ruined it........i think theyd say the opposite now .

[imported_DEADONE]

i have met and talked to a few current railroad workers and engineers where i used to live. they were very friendly. i met the worker that streaks S.A.C.Q.C (suck a conrail quality cock). he gave me a brand new CSX hat, it ruled. the smile and wave is my usual routine though.

[rolldafukout]

i usually give them the thumbs up, ive had workers tell me it's ok to paint and i tell them im not a painter and that im taking a short cut, over the summer we where in this yard getting footage and a worker poped out of nowhere and i started filming him the whole time he walked up to us, he than radioed in to the bull so we rolled out, i still got the tape!

[Average White Railfan]

Originally posted by DEADONE
i have met and talked to a few current railroad workers and engineers where i used to live. they were very friendly. i met the worker that streaks S.A.C.Q.C (suck a conrail quality cock). he gave me a brand new CSX hat, it ruled. the smile and wave is my usual routine though.

im not one to pay much attention to streaks, but im sure ive seen that before. thats funny what it stands for. the wave and pass shit is the standard for me too though.

[BIG T]

yeah but you got to have the 2 fingered, and thumb snap at the wrist redneck wave. the workers love that one!

[mawsAA]

Heres another question cos I don't get what you guys are talking about....
Whats "streaks"?

[baLLeRplAyA]

streaks are when you use a meanstreak or oil stick to write your name or draw a picture rather than painting the trains. as far as know the workers goes i was brought up in a railroad family, my grandfather was an agent for UP back in the day and my father was a brakeman for one of the lines in my area....i know a whole lot of workers and generally they will tell you anything you want to know about the railroad system. of course i havent ever had a situation where i was i a yard and had to talk to a worker i didnt know, but one time one of my pops friend got me drunk sitting in a boxcar when he got off work.....

[WEb=ijP]

wat do yard workers do?

[imported_visualJAZZ]

a worker once told my friend that a train was about to start moving and it would rip his head off and that he should get off the line. funny thing is, my friend still has his head. i usually just stare at the workers since they are staring at me. i dont know, maybe i feel intimidated.

[CROW RA]

WHEN TRAINS STOP ON THE MAIN LINE I DRIVE MY BLAZER DOWN THE TRACKS 2 FLICK GRAFF AND STREAKS. WHEN WE GO 2 THE ENGINE THE CONDUCTOR CAME OUT WHEN I WAS FLICKING THE ENGINE BRAND NEW BNSF...NICE.......AND NEW. HE ASK IF WE WOULD PICK UP THE BRAKE MAN SO WE ROLLED BACK DOWN THE OTHER SIDE PICKED HIM UP WHILE HE WAS N MY TRUCK A DOPE E2E CAME UP I JUMPED OUT TOOK PIC'S AND HE ASKED WHY I WAS TAKING FLIX OG GRAFF,AND SO ON HE SAID SOME OF IT LOOKS GOOD. -----WHEN WE GOT BACK DOWN 2 THE ENGINE WE GOT 2 GO UP IN THERE AND PEEP IT AND TAKE INSIDE FLIX---- HELLA DOPE!!!!!!!! AND THEY GAVE US -CONRAIL CREW PACKS AND THEY WERE OUTA THERE!!!!!!!
---SO SOME WORKERS ARE COOL AS FUCK AND SOME CAN SUCK A DICK!!:crazy:

[Boring Bastard]

Originally posted by CROW RA
WHEN TRAINS STOP ON THE MAIN LINE I DRIVE MY BLAZER DOWN THE TRACKS 2 FLICK GRAFF AND STREAKS. WHEN WE GO 2 THE ENGINE THE CONDUCTOR CAME OUT WHEN I WAS FLICKING THE ENGINE BRAND NEW BNSF...NICE.......AND NEW. HE ASK IF WE WOULD PICK UP THE BRAKE MAN SO WE ROLLED BACK DOWN THE OTHER SIDE PICKED HIM UP WHILE HE WAS N MY TRUCK A DOPE E2E CAME UP I JUMPED OUT TOOK PIC'S AND HE ASKED WHY I WAS TAKING FLIX OG GRAFF,AND SO ON HE SAID SOME OF IT LOOKS GOOD. -----WHEN WE GOT BACK DOWN 2 THE ENGINE WE GOT 2 GO UP IN THERE AND PEEP IT AND TAKE INSIDE FLIX---- HELLA DOPE!!!!!!!! AND THEY GAVE US -CONRAIL CREW PACKS AND THEY WERE OUTA THERE!!!!!!!
---SO SOME WORKERS ARE COOL AS FUCK AND SOME CAN SUCK A DICK!!:crazy:

You're a lucky bastard!!

[sectorTVA]

Originally posted by CROW RA
WHEN TRAINS STOP ON THE MAIN LINE I DRIVE MY BLAZER DOWN THE TRACKS 2 FLICK GRAFF AND STREAKS. WHEN WE GO 2 THE ENGINE THE CONDUCTOR CAME OUT WHEN I WAS FLICKING THE ENGINE BRAND NEW BNSF...NICE.......AND NEW. HE ASK IF WE WOULD PICK UP THE BRAKE MAN SO WE ROLLED BACK DOWN THE OTHER SIDE PICKED HIM UP WHILE HE WAS N MY TRUCK A DOPE E2E CAME UP I JUMPED OUT TOOK PIC'S AND HE ASKED WHY I WAS TAKING FLIX OG GRAFF,AND SO ON HE SAID SOME OF IT LOOKS GOOD. -----WHEN WE GOT BACK DOWN 2 THE ENGINE WE GOT 2 GO UP IN THERE AND PEEP IT AND TAKE INSIDE FLIX---- HELLA DOPE!!!!!!!! AND THEY GAVE US -CONRAIL CREW PACKS AND THEY WERE OUTA THERE!!!!!!!
---SO SOME WORKERS ARE COOL AS FUCK AND SOME CAN SUCK A DICK!!:crazy:

the engineer gave me a lift numerous time, one time while they were humping cars....its cool as hell...he showed me what the gauges mean inside and showed me how to read them....the first time he gave me a lift i was watching them do yard activity at the back of the yard....they came up when they were done and asked if a friend and i wanted a ride to the office....i got it on video tape and everything....be aware if you get a lift in an engine, make sure the precise details of where it happened and who gave you the ride never get out...it could cost the workers theyre jobs...

[CROW RA]

:D one other time i was flicking in a siding yard a worker rolled up on me. we talked 4 a bit and asked if i was busy I told him no, then we chilled in the small yard office he hooked me up with route maps and all kinds of goodies, once the brake man showed up I taged along and went on there route rolled 2 the lake and droped off some hoppers and picked up some boxcars,rolled back 2 the yard droped them off went 2 some plant picked up oil takers ,then they got a call they had 2 go 2 the main yard out in cleveland. so they droped me off at my truck,,,,,that sucked cuz there next stop was the ns/conrail inter change----one of my spots!!!=0)
---------yea be safe around yards!!!!-------
----oh yea its true what SECTORTVA said they could lose there jobs if some ass neck see that............:crazy:

[imported_xhobox]

i'm friends with an engineer for CSX... he says alot of guys at his work have albums full of flicks of amazing shit...

[Average White Railfan]

Originally posted by MIA=305
wat do yard workers do?

work in the yard, i think.

[me IS cool]

yeah I know what your talking about. at my local spot the workers don't mid our painting of the trains, but they tell us to stay off the numbers. I've hooked up a couple of the workers with some cold beer we had with us. It dosen't hurt to try and get to know the workers. What's even more amazing is that if they were dicks they could easily fuck us over. There's a police station nearby. But so far so good.:D

[Frate_Raper]

I've met the BUFF! my dad straight told him "yeah my kid he writes on the fucken trains"...guy looked at me for a second and goes "you should see my albums over 800 trains" and this was like 96 I'd like to see what he has now.
He told me about solo getting caught and talked about brakemen against goofy graffiti and graffiti in general he loved it,it kept him in the job and it was nice to look at.....My dad worked for the railroad for along time the company he works for now is still railroad related.His pad is full of jacked shit....cases I mean cases or railale boys.Cn beer stines(sp),he had a cn belt buckle too....hats shirts alot of shit.


I've had a few really good experences with some.This one morning a truck roll up on me.I was gunna run but I thought I'd take it like man.Guy asked me for a smoke.Then he parked and asked me for a light then he finds his matches sparks up a J.His boy shows up bitching about me being their.He told him I was cool.So we hung out talked about drinking,college,sluts and taggers(lol)....they then the engine shows and they went to work..slugging back beers the whole time.They got the dude to pull out a a line so I could flick a cosoe/cameo/kaput.

most of the time it's a fuck that guy saw us...then i hear tires on the gravel to see the bull:(

[L.RonHubbard]

the first yard i ever painted the workers there watched me paint a train while my friend videotaped me. He told me that he found empty cans and rubber gloves all around the yard and picked them up every mondya. THis was when i was in the early years of high school. Just th eother day i met a workere while i was painting and his exact quote was "Do ytoiu want to finish that>>" i was like "can i?" "i dont care what you tag, I dont own this railroad, the NS does." i told hyim he was a homie for life and he told me tha tth etrain i was painting would not be humped. I bugged out though. THIS motherufcker was cool as shit. I finished up and was on my way.

[IntangibleFame]

Originally posted by mawsAA
Heres another question cos I don't get what you guys are talking about....
Whats "streaks"?

Sigh.....sound it out...s..t..r..e..a..k..s..now what kinda utensil would that be? Or em I being "mean"?

Originally posted by ink Lunatic
Luckily i had left the cans under a palm tree farther back.....

Where do you live that has freights with Palm Trees near by?! And is there coconuts?

[WebsterUno]

The yard workers Ive met were cool.
Just play it cool, and they wont be dicks.

[imported_EL MASKO]

I use to know our Yard Master and was good friends w/him. He'd take me into the engines and we'd chill all day. He'd pick me up in the morning and I'd just go to work w/him. He got transfered a few years back. I also know this guy who's my friends step dad, he's a switcher for CSX. I was over at my friends place and he was like "Yeah my dad's droppin by. He works for CSX" and when he came over we talked about the railroad and the local lines in general. All while he was taking hits off a bong. So that night he was wroking at the main yard and let us follow him up there and chill w/him all night durring his shift. He also let us paint and showed me some flicks he had taken of some wholecars. His favorite in his collection was that Battleship one. But usually it's the ole greet & toss-I mean wave & pass.

[fire crotch]

Yo im not a big rail fan but i have always been intigued by them. I was just wondering what "hump" means when talking about trains.

Anyway my only story is thit. One of the first times i walking down a line me and a friend were about 5 feet from the nearest track and a worker drives up in his blazer. I was about to freak cause id never been approached by a worker nonetheless been down there. But he just rolls up and asks if we are ok. And then suggests that we stay off the tracks and back a few more feet cause the trains come through pretty quick. But he was hella nice.

[esoteric]

Hey first off I wanna say that its cool you guys are so chill in this forum... so many writers are fuckin assholes especially in forums. I have been piecing walls for about 4 years and don't totally suck by now. But down here the walls are wack and I'm sick of schlepping roll paint to dumb spots that always get dissed by dumb crews, toys and gangs. Fr8s are the next logical step for graff and seeing how I live in Santa Fe, there's gotta be some yards near here. I hit my first two boxcars last month while in CO. I stayed off the numbers and everything, didn't leave a trace besides my pieces, and I just wanna know from some veteran freight painters about any other yard etiquyette, terminology, and rules I should obey. Just want a few tips for a newly converted fr8 painter. My first piece on a frieght rolled before I could even finish the outline!!! This is because I looked up and saw a train I hadn't heard coming, and hid under the car. After a few seconds I saw boots and carharts and an orange vest walking down the track towards me. That train had parked on the track I had been standing on! I don'tthink he saw me run down the track on the other side and down the embankmant and hid in the underpass. I heard the train moving again after awhile so went up to watch as Jase and Daver pieces rolled by, then mine. Maybe they saw me standing there again, cuz the train stopped again. Shit, I thought and ran back under the under pass and out the other side and out to the road. Walking away, I saw the worker still walking to the front of the train. I guess this was the brakeman? Sorry this is so long I'll shut up now.

[IHATEU]

Originally posted by Frate Raper
He told me about solo getting caught
gossip...out right lie

[Cracked Ass]

Esoteric:
1. DO NOT hide under a car, EVER.
2. Read the thread near the top of this forum entitled YARD SAFETY. Twice would be good.
Thank you.
__________________________________
Hee hee...solo getting "caught"...whatever.

[Ms.Bombastic]

I went into the yard office and asked permission to bench and take flicks...and they were cool as hell about it...I can go pretty much anywhere on the lay....Workers are always nice as fuck...but I mean I've also never had a run in with them at 2 am so I don't know how they'd react to me painting.

[Fingacramp7]

Ive spent time talking with yard workers. One gave me candy and told me to stay off the nummbers. and then told me about his younger days working the yards and how he and his fellow workers SURF on the tops of the fr8s. lol. NO JOKE<< he really gave me candy. and told me about the bull that kreeps around that yard i was in. Yard workers are people to. Treat them with reapsect wave at them when there rolling buy. and let them know you not a bad guy. they see to many dick heads already on the tracks..

[CIPHER_one]

Originally posted by Cracked Ass
Esoteric:
1. DO NOT hide under a car, EVER.
2. Read the thread near the top of this forum entitled YARD SAFETY. Twice would be good.
Thank you.
__________________________________
Hee hee...solo getting "caught"...whatever.


What if I've been painting trains for a couple years, and I know people that hae for about 5 or more, and we have never witnessed cras being humped?

I know its better safe than sorry, so I probably will take that advice anyway.

[Boring Bastard]

Originally posted by CIPHER_one



What if I've been painting trains for a couple years, and I know people that hae for about 5 or more, and we have never witnessed cras being humped?

I know its better safe than sorry, so I probably will take that advice anyway.

How in the fuck is that possible?? Dream spots?? :confused:

[microsoft_golf]

i want to be a yard worker they make alright money and imagine all the freight fliiks you could have plus you would now the yard like the back of your girls ass

[siloette]

hey boring ..we can arange all of us getting together thursday..sorry I had to depart the convo so quick..I hate the snow..just call//sorry I had to do this here..lost your email again..word..

:)

[Boring Bastard]

Originally posted by siloette
hey boring ..we can arange all of us getting together thursday..sorry I had to depart the convo so quick..I hate the snow..just call//sorry I had to do this here..lost your email again..word..

:)

Yo......... that'd be cool!! I thought you were super mad at me and I left the convo kinda upset..........Glad it's all cool!!
I'll call you girl!!;)

[Beep]

geez....hello willy rail worker. i paint on trains.. will you let me use your grease bar and i'll hit you up too!!

[jus]

the only run in with a worker i ever had was we were takin flicks of some shit an he rolls up an he was pissed about some one hitting up some freash freights the line had just started working for an we denied it but he knew it was us an hw says"well i wish they would stop hitting the new freight an just do the old ones"(i wish the police felt the same way)an we started talkin an about stupid shit i was trying to get some info to help me out an some how he was tellin me how he loves smoking joes streak an as one passed he pointed it out an he told me there was a book about him is that true???

[smokin..joe]

uhhhh mmaybe where i live its just pretty strict or something? cause my boy has had several rail road jobs, and none of them would let him have a camera in possesion,some of my spots ive never seen any rail workers and some i have, but when i do i usually give the wave and nodd, but they just look at me as if there angry

[punk..fucker]

hey smokin joe im from the same town you are....

me and mef have walked the ********in the day time and
we stoped and talked to this rail road worker, we had back packs and paint ,camera's..
anyway we talked to this dude for like 15 mins... and he knew what
we were up to he just was talkin about how the yard is not a safe
spot and a train could tip at anytime..he said he used to work in the
********yard..he was cooL.. oh and i registered on 12oz so send
me some private messages joe.

*******hey guy....don't give the names of places on the internet...this is a public forum********

[nocalfr8tr]

Originally posted by rolldafukout
ive had workers tell me it's ok to paint

for real, man? i knew we come from the same areas and have painted the same yards, but i never would suspect being told its okay to paint in any of them. is that honestly the truth? you dont need to post it here, im sure you know who i am. that just sounds crazy. if it is true, dope.

anyways, i hope i dont ever have to run into a worker again. my relationship is to stay as still as possible in the hopper or next to the wheels. for those of you that get the freedom to paint trains with no stress, fuck you. not an asshole one, but maybe one of jealousy. then again, thats not really the true essence of paintin freights, gettin to do it with out the chance of being caught. its sorta cheatin, sorry fellas.

[cEaSeR_oNeS]

thats dope that u kids know train yard workers
and that there cool about the graff scene

[C-O-K PBScru]

DAMN THATS DOPE HOW ALL THESE CATS ARE DOWN WITH GRAFF AND TAKIN FLIX I SAW SOME WORKERS IN MY LITTLE SO CALLED YARD BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WILL BE AS FRIENDLY AS EVERYONE ELSES CAUSE THIS IS A SMALL CITY WITH A BUNCH OF GAY HEROS

MUCH LOVE

<~COK~>

[cypha]

You guys are lucky knowin peeps at the train yards while me and COK have to worry about all the hero's out there. I just got bagged at our train yards cuase some fuckin hero had to call 5-0 on me. I wish there were dope people who knew about graff, but around this shitty small ass town people just look at it as destrution of property.

[nocalfr8tr]

i'm not so sure i'd be comfortable painting trains if i knew it was all good. i'd feel as if i was cheating all of you who see my freights. sure, i love painting them, but doing it free is ridiculous. why dont we write a letter to our nearest railroad and ask them to sponsor us for paint. or better yet, why dont we have them name a line after us. if trains were legal i'd quit. i'm sure many people who have been truly rockin for years would follow. cheaters...quit already.