Showing posts with label freight train. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freight train. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Newcastle Freights

Artwork from New South Wales third biggest city. Newcastle is a industrial town claiming the world's largest coal port. Abundant coal made prime position for BHP establishing steelworks that dominated the local economy until its closure in 1999. What's left, well an town that has a history of infrastructure embedded in the prosperity coal. As most countries in the world shift away from fossil fuels a diversified future comes with certainty. The transport of coal to Newcastle plays backdrop to the city as it dominates the city landscape with this bleak dystopian undercurrent. 

Trains have always been prized as the top spot to display a piece. Passenger trains are the ultimate steel canvas. Whatever runs on metro trains gets buffed and cleaned quick, whereas freight train pieces often run for years. 





 

Saturday, 7 October 2017

Freight train graffiti

Wheat grain trains near the South Australian-Victoria border. Showcasing some of the most well known Melbourne graffiti artists Cruze and Lush. The moving art gallery. 








Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Tassie Freight Train Graffiti 2

The train yards in the Launceston are a popular place to paint. Orker probably the first island bomber in Tasmania has smashed some panels along with an earlier piece by style kings IKOE (Incredible Knights Of Enamel) https://www.facebook.com/theikoecrew. For more information on Tasmania's rail system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Tasmania.



Sunday, 15 February 2015

Tassie freight train graffiti

In Tasmania about 50km South of Launceston lies the important town of Conara. Conara was initially a overnight rest stop on the now midland hwy for coaches between Hobart and Launceston. The railway was developed and passenger services ran daily, until the entire passenger train network in Tasmania was shut down in 1978. Conara is the junction of the Fingal (coal) and Hobart-Launceston railway lines. It is now used as a rail siding.