A Reminder Of The Start Of The Freight Car Graffiti Era

I just rediscovered this photo I took on Cajon Pass sometime in early BNSF but pre-triple track in the late 1990s. What's most notable is that it dates from the early freight car graffiti period, where I would see just occasional cars with one tag on one side of the door. Soon enough this expanded to tags on both sides all across the car, as things are now.

Cajon Pass in this specific time fame was double track with concrete ties, with the telegraph lines still in place. This would quickly change.