Theres one on every train..

[Meat Puppet]

 

[Ryan]

That's hilarious.

 

[MattW]

I sincerely hope that that was the rearmost car of the train

 

[roomette]

What did you do with the C and the L you peeled off?

 

[Bob Dylan]

This Post Shows Absolutely No CLASS!!! ^_^

 

[dabrilloman]

Pants optional...

 

[gmushial]

Somebody had a keen eye - my hat's off to them

 

[Acela150]

I think it's even better cause the welcome is in the photo. So it really says.. "Welcome Coach Ass".. I guess even Amtrak has a humorous side!

 

[Steve4031]

Coach Ass can come coach the bears defense. We need one to toughen them up.

 

[WhoozOn1st]

I wonder if all the folks yukking it up are equally amused by graffiti covering everything. Vandalism is vandalism, and it's pretty hypocritical to pick and choose, saying "This kind is funny" but "That kind is terrible." It's ALL defacement, disrespect, and eye pollution.

 

[gmushial]

I wonder if all the folks yukking it up are equally amused by graffiti covering everything. Vandalism is vandalism, and it's pretty hypocritical to pick and choose, saying "This kind is funny" but "That kind is terrible." It's ALL defacement, disrespect, and eye pollution.

I'm sorry, but I don't see the world as all black or white, ie, I can see shades of gray (or grey if one is from the other side of the pond); and can see a huge difference btwn something like this and seeing whole trains which have been tagged. I believe our legal system also sees such gradation. No?

 

[Steve4031]

I assumed wear rather then vandalism. Do these letters actually peel off that easily?

 

[AG1]

I wonder if all the folks yukking it up are equally amused by graffiti covering everything. Vandalism is vandalism, and it's pretty hypocritical to pick and choose, saying "This kind is funny" but "That kind is terrible." It's ALL defacement, disrespect, and eye pollution.

WhoozOn1st, My observation of your posts over many years is that you try to inject humor into your posts when ever you can. I have enjoyed those posts and travelogues. The people above know that this is vandalism. They are not supporting vandalism or graffiti. They are just trying too inject some humor into a post as you have done many times in the past.

 

[Ryan]

I assumed wear rather then vandalism. Do these letters actually peel off that easily?

I would be very surprised if those two letters randomly wore off.

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[SarahZ]

Well, color me dumb because I thought they wore off during washing or something.

 

[Steve4031]

I assumed wear rather then vandalism. Do these letters actually peel off that easily?

I would be very surprised if those two letters randomly wore off.
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It sure doesn't look random. I just thought it would be difficulty to remove the lettering. And said difficulty would make it doing this intentionally risky.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Come to think of it, it's not like being called "Coach Class" is that much nicer than being called a Coach Ass, at least in my view. Why couldn't they just say "Coach Car" or the like? Instead it comes across like some sort of judgmental caste style designation.

 

[Steve4031]

Maybe to differentiate from business class? Do sleeping cars have class or car written on the side? Never really looked that close because I can tell by car number/location in consist as well as looking in the windows.

 

[SarahZ]

The Superliners say "sleeping car".

 

[Ryan]

Well, color me dumb because I thought they wore off during washing or something.

They may have (I'm sure they do), but what're the odds of only the "cl" washing off and leaving exactly that.
Certainly possible, just highly unlikely, IMO.

 

[Steve4031]

Well then I think coach class is used to differentiate from bc. Non railfans would not no that superliner trains don't have bc.

 

[gmushial]

I was actually wondering if the "enhancement" hadn't been done by Amtrak employees in the maintenance yard, vs, some outsider - as some minor prank... seems to me that it would be much more difficult for an outsider, ie, passenger to do such and go unnoticed.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Well then I think coach class is used to differentiate from bc. Non railfans would not no that superliner trains don't have bc.

If you cannot purchase business class on any Superliner train why would anyone be expecting it?

 

[me_little_me]

Come to think of it, it's not like being called "Coach Class" is that much nicer than being called a Coach Ass, at least in my view. Why couldn't they just say "Coach Car" or the like? Instead it comes across like some sort of judgmental caste style designation.

Oh! No! I see it now:

Class action (pun intended) suit against Amtrak alleging insulting language and discrimination against lower income people. Activists demand cars be renamed "Cost conscious Prudent Passengers Only"

 

[Anderson]

Come to think of it, it's not like being called "Coach Class" is that much nicer than being called a Coach Ass, at least in my view. Why couldn't they just say "Coach Car" or the like? Instead it comes across like some sort of judgmental caste style designation.

Oh! No! I see it now:

Class action (pun intended) suit against Amtrak alleging insulting language and discrimination against lower income people. Activists demand cars be renamed "Cost conscious Prudent Passengers Only"

I'm imagining Ryanair trying that label on...