Jasmine ! – small dead animals

April, 2007….

“Work on the $1 million dollar project will be complete by July 31, 2007. The tender for painting the (100) hopper cars has been awarded to GE Railcar Repair Service Company of Regina and the contract for the decals has been awarded to Arco Graphics Inc. of Saskatoon.”

I told you so.

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Great, she left her railcar in the middle of Saskatchewan as well.
What a scatterbrain that Ms McDonnel is.

I guess Lorne or somebody had some friends in the painting business?
A million bucks to paint graphics on -private- rail cars. Because, like, nobody could predict the graphics would be vandalized pretty much as the cars left the paint shop, right?
And dippers wonder why nobody likes them.

All around the Saska bush
The Dipper spent the Dollars.
The Dipper thought ’twas all good fun.
Then Flop! goes the Dipper.
A million for a spool of thread,
A million for a needle.
That’s the way the money goes.
Flop! goes the Dipper.

It’s about time we had a spray bomb registry.
Syncro

That’s not the work of a spraybomb. Vandals didn’t need spraybombs, they just reposition parts of the self adhisive vinyl film letters.
wtf? looks like they used 3mil vinyl film for the graphics, not 2mil cast?!?
Wish I had the chance to quote on that job.
That’s about $200 in vinyl film per car and maybe 2 hours at the most labor for the graphics.

$10K per is extremely expensive for a railcar paint job. Suspect the decals brought the cost up significantly AND GE is making a tidy profit which they dearly need. For $10K US, one should be able to get paint as well as a robust mechanical upgrade. There is a project under way as I type that involves painting, in and out, refreshing the mechanicals and installing cushioned underframes [a very big deal] to a series of boxcars we’re using that are as old or older as these covered hoppers.
And as we all know, fresh paint = fresh canvas for the unwashed masses living on the fringes of metropolitan areas anywhere in the world.

“Suspect the decals brought the cost up significantly”
It shouldn’t have. I’m in the business and those can easily be done for well under $1000/car while still making a very nice profit.

Reminds me of the old shithouse graffiti. For a good time–call Jasmime at 306-642-6969

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