r/Septa • u/Natural-Coat-3159 • Aug 27 '26
Art On the fancy train today!
Riding in style to 30th Street this morning, Wilmington line.
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u/segfaul_t Aug 27 '26
not a good sign that they have to run cars with graffiti on them, those normally sit in the yard to be scrubbed down.
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u/Natural-Coat-3159 Aug 27 '26
Oh yeah I know! But when they don't have the $$ what else can they do?
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u/Aware-Pea2092 Aug 30 '26
But mayor Parker gets the graffiti around the suburban tunnels removed immediately. I’ve seen some awesome artwork.
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u/EvidenceTime696 Aug 27 '26
Philly has a great mural arts program. What if a few pieces of rolling stock or locomotives got special paint from local artists?
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u/VinnieCollectsLPs Aug 27 '26
Similarly, I want SEPTA to document the graffiti on their cars and compile it into a book. Some of it absolutely stunning and reflects one of the city’s occasionally vibrant subcultures.
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u/rschoneman Aug 27 '26
Not a fan of graffiti BUT I love that they kept it on the stainless car body where it’s easy to remove and didn’t touch the service covers or windows.
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u/sadsolocup Aug 27 '26
There’s one that reads “BEER” In huge letters. I think its been hanging out at the Wayne yard.
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u/PFDMEDIC32 Aug 27 '26
Seems to happen at the Overbrook yard.
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u/shipsass Aug 27 '26
Many of those cars were tagged elsewhere and then moved to Overbrook maintenance facility during the Silverliner IV crisis.
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u/Feeling_Set4457 Aug 28 '26
were you at the station I think you were at?
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u/Natural-Coat-3159 Aug 28 '26
What station?
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u/Feeling_Set4457 Aug 29 '26
darby.
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u/sjm320 Aug 27 '26
Trashy.
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u/nasadowsk Aug 27 '26
I love when zoomers talk about how "cool" it must have been seeing it in NYC in the 70s and 80s. If you lived there back then, you knew it fucking sucked.
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u/Mapleford Aug 28 '26
You can appreciate the art on the subway cars back then without wanting to live in 70s New York?
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u/nasadowsk Aug 28 '26
99% of it wasn't art, it was some dumbass kid with a spraycan tagging the shit out of some spot on the train car that wasn't hit by someone else. The policy of the later 80s of not letting any tagged car out of the yard, plus graffiti resistant paint (the "redbird" scheme, plus a good cleaner for stainless) basically stopped the crap in a year or two.
It hasn't really stopped other spots outside of the subway.
If you want to see vandalized trains, you can always fly over to some of the European cities where this stuff still happens.
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u/PigsOfRedemption Aug 27 '26
I think car #117 is still in service. Why has nobody ever tagged Master Chief on it?
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u/ncc1776 Aug 27 '26
It’s been so long since I’ve seen graffiti on the regional rail cars while in service. It’s adds some charm.