On December 7, I spotted the Arizona Daily Star article
Tucson Oddity: Graffiti-covered boxcars, site now store parts for old trolleys. About ten years ago, the story said, Old Pueblo Trolley let winners of a graffiti art contest paint the boxcars. The cars -- stored in a fenced lot at
10 N. Park Avenue, are about to be re-painted to look like they did in the mid-1950s. I grabbed my camera and got out there around noon yesterday:
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The lot's fence is high, topped with razor wire, and you can't see much through it. Luckily, the gate was open. I walked in, chatted with two men who came out of the building that opens onto the lot, and I walked right up next to the cars. Here are two views of the mural on the south side (the far side of the right-hand boxcar in the first photo above):
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxYPhOt9uRDjkQcUSr4_L-3wqMn588WcMw90UiRZwK4XzChKeZxeQAZmDvKDMxX5QU3V7zp1OAJBil9oD2Kl4rmbDV1D3hNFwmIiuRp91L-GM-0NnVPTHjwY3m8L1P6n6eIGP/s400/0063431_00_web.jpg)
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The back of the other boxcar was harder to see -- close to the fence and half in shade. Here's what I got:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi031xuh2HYprfZYryq2KICrh4zrxg0vmd1GnSzc6Ol3IJne0hAroub7X-J7A8GdILIwXxXAcp7ZK7PRA5B8COedJD4SlgGiezzWOW-zE-3ehbwoTeg38xLkEHjZfCulLqqzAwJ/s400/0063430_02_web.jpg)
This is one more view -- facing the inside (northwest) corner of the two boxcars in the first photo, looking through a dilapidated trolley:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqlrAhZXudr_h9yx45nlH5ePvCw2oLxgkRQVb4aPx5l6QZGikPtK6vNwUMNhJ6mPrb4hE4oAbN8pBvdZ6_jdrarjEAGWZ2KtJwIKVyW7SgpKh5PKaNz_osqZMwVvcYILpOSQJz/s400/0063429_01_web.jpg)
Soon these murals will be part of Tucson history. (By the way, a good place I've found to read and discuss Tucson history is at
Vanishing Tucson.)