I still love watching trains, and I hang out trackside whenever I get a chance. Here are some recent highlights of photos of freights rolling by though Richmond, Indiana.

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In 2013, I made a black & white zine called, Hoosier State Rail Journal, which featured 35mm photos from my collection and a few submissions, with an emphasis on Indiana freights. Here is a digital version of the zine.

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A rusty Mono/Geo gondola from 2003 came back to town about 17 years later. These types of gons are typically used for track-work and get banged up and travel around to multiple states. On the other side, Geo wrote, “Listen to BPD (Boogie Down Productions)”, which is still relevant today.

This is one of my favorite photos and pieces. Also, one of the first Onorok pieces I’ve seen up close on the rails. Taken in 2000, I believe. This was before I learned to not photograph pieces at an angle. Still love this one.

Sufr fill-in from 2003. It’s still there if you look closely enough.

Some streaks and tags showed up last year in town from Raems AMFM, a writer from the West Coast. He must have been passing through. Thanks for stopping by.

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In 2009, I was visiting Oxford, Ohio to buy art supplies at the now closed, Bill’s Art Store. On the side of a building I spotted an old faded and buffed Kwiz tag in red, that I had never noticed before. I changed the levels of the photo insanely in Photoshop to make it show up better.

Kwiz was an active writer in the early-mid 90s. Just about every spot we would find, he would have already had a piece there.

These Mono & Geo throw-ups were done in 2004, and are still riding relatively untouched in 2020.

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Here are 3 photos scanned from negatives from some of my early rolls of film. That was also one of the first of many Onorok freights I caught during those early years. Circa, 2000.

Richmond’s railroad history goes way back! Today we still see a fair amount of rail traffic. Norfolk Southern’s single track runs through Richmond from Cincinnati, Ohio to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, in what they call the New Castle District. Watching trains is called “benching” by graffiti writers. Benching freights was my first exposure to graffiti from outside the area, and even still today you can see graffiti from all over the country, Canada, and even Mexico roll by. From time-to-time I will be posting classic photos of freight train graffiti passing through Richmond, IN.

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I got invited to a writer’s jam in Indianapolis in 2002. The event became the annual graffiti mural festival, Subsurface. Here are some of the photos I took that day. I apologize, but I don’t have flicks of every piece that was done.

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