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A signature riding the freight.
Also known as: Rail moniker, Freight signature, Streak
The chalk or paint-stick signature drawn by rail workers and travellers on freight wagons.
Records the presence of a rail worker or traveller on a freight wagon.
Contexts: History, Public information
Travels rather than staying put, so a moniker written in one state is read in another and the practice constitutes a distributed correspondence between people who rarely meet.
Contexts: History, Public information
Distinguished within the practice from spray-painted graffiti by its medium and its conventions, and the two are regarded as separate traditions by their practitioners.
Contexts: History, Public information
A drawn nickname with a simple figure beside it, in oil-based paint stick or chalk on the side of a freight wagon, often with a date.