Trains seen around Murfreesboro TN Sept 15 2019

I well remember the early 1970's in Nashville (still L&N) when there were mostly graffiti-free railcars and a variety of colorful boxcars. I lament the modern state of rolling stock which are, for the most part, dingy, grimy and graffiti-scrawled - unfortunately NOT very aesthetic for my taste! Railroad car graffiti IS vandalism, and definitely NOT art! Oh, and I miss cabooses, which were still around in the early 1970's. All change is not necessarily good! 😐

Today, the locomotives are usually the most visually appealing elements of the modern consists! I reside in North Nashville and daily observe a lot of action on the north of town wye and over the Cumberland River drawbridge.

Also I daily pass the Inophos chemical plant on Centennial Blvd with its multi track siding leads serviced by CSX with some intersting chemical tank cars and almost always rusty covered hoppers spotted for unloading.