A Big Slap to the Clean Train Era
After yesterday’s teaser photos of the Made U Look “Cash is King” whole train, we got a much better look to share. Although the photo is missing the ‘M’ and ‘A’ it’s probably the best around because the R line, which this was painted on, only runs a maximum of 8 cars per train. Because of this it’s likely the whole thing was painted in two parts: two cars with ‘MA’ and an 8 car whole train, with “DE U LOOK” and Mr. Monopoly.
Clocking in at 750 feet of painted steel, this is a major feat for the so-called clean train era and a possible record for biggest whole train painted in history. It’s just too bad that Darius McCollum, the metrophile arrested nearly two dozen times for joyriding subway cars and attempted theft of a locomotive, was too locked up to help move a couple subways cars so the Made U Look crew could paint a continuous piece.
All the collected photos of the piece are included after the jump.
SICK
By NNRK on January 19th, 2007 at 3:58 pmthis is a huge feat, but there have been bigger whole trains done in europe. it’s history in america, though, for sure.
By please on January 19th, 2007 at 5:11 pmwithout photo evidence, you’re claim is worthless. we want links!
By NNRK on January 19th, 2007 at 5:25 pmDamn, that’s impressive… anymore pics? When did they pull this off, and what yard?
By Brian Scotto on January 19th, 2007 at 8:58 pmHoly bejesus this is awesome. Mad props!
By bvllets on January 19th, 2007 at 8:59 pmDESTROY ALL YARDS!….good work.
By DEN on January 20th, 2007 at 12:11 amplease says:
“this is a huge feat, but there have been bigger whole trains done in europe. it’s history in america, though, for sure.”
DEN says:
Dear Please,
By DEN on January 20th, 2007 at 12:14 amBombing trains in europe is baby games.
I’m not a fan of graffit but this is incredible. Digg!
By Ted on January 20th, 2007 at 2:06 pmThe website the pictures are from are not even from mul members, the website given for the photos is apparently made by the NYC Police Department to try and help catch the artists.
By Anon on January 20th, 2007 at 7:25 pmno big deal no real style to the letters more fill in then anything. props for doing it but its deffenatly not like back in the 70;s and 80’s when style ruled. the first time nah get out of here! fab 5 did whole trains both sides and the roof and they burned withe style and the had more going on then just some simple ttb silvers.
By bronx bob on January 21st, 2007 at 1:48 amYEAH MOTHERFUCKER, BRING RUCKUS TO THE MTA, NYCEXPOSED.COM!
By NYCXKILLS on January 21st, 2007 at 3:55 amyo bronx bob, i think you should take a look at Dondi’s legendary peices you might be suprised how simple they are. Just because it isn’t wild style doesn’t mean it’s inferior, just different. I think it takes real talent to make something simple look good, like these guys did here.
By horrrbin on January 21st, 2007 at 9:34 pmIf this were done in 1985, it would have been just another day in NYC but since it’s lock down 07, everyone has there thongs all bunched up in awe. Its alright at best but bold for this close circut era.
By Orheck 62cru on January 22nd, 2007 at 5:19 amRegardless of your aesthetic preference, you can’t ignore the difficulty of even pulling off a whole train in 2007.
By Sean on January 22nd, 2007 at 11:22 ameurope train painting is kids games, europe is forever trying to catch up…alot of stuff in europe is legal walls…
also, the UA whole train in the seventies both sides was the best, but I dont think that included the top, there were never pics published of the tops…
By lifer on January 22nd, 2007 at 2:34 pmMUL pays off transit workers to paint
By dude on January 22nd, 2007 at 2:40 pmthis is halarious, 1st off these cats burn anyone on steel when it comes to piecing, then niggaz say its unreadable. then they go simple and readable and all yall bitch. plain and simple it’s obvious why this hasnt been done in nearly 20 years. and these dudes did it and did it bigger by tover 150+ feet in length and i’m sure with less people then some of the previous times its been done.
By word on January 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 pmOrheck 62cru Says:
January 22nd, 2007 at 5:19 am
“If this were done in 1985, it would have been just another day in NYC but since it’s lock down 07, everyone has there thongs all bunched up in awe. Its alright at best but bold for this close circut era. ”
ahahah shut the fuck up it wouldnt be any day in 1985 this has been only done 3 times before in NYC Transit history. and of those 3 times a few were pourly documented. some the old ones were tight and had more colors but were smaller in size. 2, this aint 1985. 3. niggaz shitted on everyone.
By word on January 22nd, 2007 at 7:06 pmi agree, however the fab5 a wholetrain not (wholetrains) they didnt do bothsides nor the top of the train. and it was on the 5 line where each car is 50feet long each one of these cars was 75 do the math. lee said it was done in coney island but that story was fabricated. the fab5 whole train was done in 1977 it was called the “christmas train” ua never did a whole train.
the 1st ever whole train was done by CAINE ONE, ROGER, CHINO 174, DIME 139, DOC ONE, TAGE ONE, FLAME ONE, MAD 102 and SPIKE, SPEEDY. In the corona yard on the 7 line it was called “the freedom train” because it was done on the becentenial of out independance july 4th, 1976.
on Easter sunday in 1988 by GHOST, WANE, LACE, KKONE, VEN, REMOTE and ANT did it on a B Slant Ridge Cars. shorter than these cars. this was the longest whole train until this recent one. this took 3 attempts to finish. 1st try they didnt finish the train got pulled out, on christmas was their 2nd attempt which they ran outta paint and it was left unfinished. Later 357 crew came and dissed it anyways.
yall need to learn your history, the writter “JAPAN” was rummored to have done a whole train in 1973 but it is only rumors and know documented evidence that it ever existed. WHOLE TRAINS have been done in europe by multiple crews and writters as well in Vancouver and other places in the united states in recent years. But not new york since 1988.
also if you guys read about the guys who did it u would know they wouldnt recieve and “mouth beat downs” from my knowledge through some internet research i have done on these “MADEULOOK” guys, they are some gang affiliated people from the united states not europe like some of u believe.
By word on January 23rd, 2007 at 12:04 amand i take that back the B Slant Ridge cars are 75 feet as well so the 10 cars ties the 1988 wholetrain, however the freedom adn christmas trains are shorter in length by over 150 feet. if u do the square footage of the madeulook train is spans over a mile worth of paint.
By word on January 23rd, 2007 at 12:09 am“Bombing trains in europe is baby games.”
Don’t talk about what you don’t know.
By frnk1978 on January 25th, 2007 at 4:47 amMost European kings have painted NYC subway, whereas there are not much US writers who have painted eurotrains.
like i said style is king! dondi? what the fuck man dondi is style! i agree his “simple” styles which are not simple in any way. these so called kings of today can’t even mimick dondi’s so called “simple” styles.
not taken away what these brothers have done on this train. i agree it fuckin nice seeing a whole train done in this era.
okay okay im back pedaling here!
id have to admit ..after some cool down time and really looking at it from a non bias side (old school).
i defenatly rather see this than some shit bag get credit for using roller paint and spending a whole year on some wack letters for the sake of doing something huge on the side of a river bank..oops did i just say dat fuck ya!. all hail the style kings of da past.
“made u look” defenatly gets props and this is defenatly for the record books.
new york unite!
By bronx bob on January 25th, 2007 at 2:26 pmIn lieu of what BronxBob said from the pics on MULNYC it looks like they may have filled the white in with roller paint. Could be wrong but it does look like a roll. This was suggested to me by some other people initially. I disagreed at first , but with those new pics posted on MULNYC I can kind of see a possibilty in it..
Also “Word” you are incorrect R-40 slants are 60 ft long(10 cars x60ft)=600ft
R-44/46 are 75 feet long. These guy painted 10 cars over two set as each set is 8 cars. 910 cars x75ft)=750. That is 750 feet. A 750 ft set will over extend by two cars on an IND/BMT platform. You can see spec info on nycsubway.org
Your whole train info is very correct though. Actually all off your first post was correct.
This whole feat is amazing. The first whole car painted on a train in the MTA’s clean car program was done by Sane & Ven in 1989. The fact that 17 years later writers are still painting whole cars in the system let alone a whole train in a post 9-11 state is simply incredible. Goes to show if more writers would of been persistent enough back when the lines were methodically being clean one at a time….we probably still have graff on subways in NYC.
By someone who cares on January 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pmhttp://www.wagner-group.com/portal/index_spray,,747.html
By no drips on January 26th, 2007 at 2:17 pmYou people are all dirt bags and fuck heads. If I ever caught you painting a piece of the property that I pay HUGE taxes for and monthly fares I would beat you within and inch of life.
Get a job, get a clue and get outta the ghetto and contribute to society. You are NOT artists, you are useless gutter trash that the established society of this city cares nothing about.
Happy Dead-end life. No one will remember you when you are dead, not even the next day.
By Scotty MTA on January 26th, 2007 at 2:22 pmbronx bob.. get off that homer shit youre on you sound like a bitch.
everytime some euro kid or out of towner comes to new york, out of respect mainly because thats where the shit started, and rocks a train you new yorkers always have some sly shit to talk out the side of your necks!
whether it be pullin off a whole train in 2007 or paintin the biggest graffiti piece ever known to mankind (PROPS TO SABER!!!!) …they both have two things in common: IT WASNT DONE BY NEW YORKERS..
quit fuckin cryin and give props where its due.
By SYNICAL on January 26th, 2007 at 2:34 pmand while youre at it take them fuckin bandanas off
stop throwin gang signs, new york.
YOU AINT WEST COAST!
someone who cares
By word on January 26th, 2007 at 5:08 pmthanks for the info i love the site thanks!
By word on January 26th, 2007 at 5:09 pm@word no probs.
@scottymta…hahahhaha…sorry but I bet you half the writers out there make more money , live in better homes then you do. Those who are really good and get up will always be remebered. Their are tons of books on the subject to prove it..as for kicking asses. Do a lil research on graffiti to see what the average age is. You find plenty of writers in there 30’s & 40’s. If anyone might receive an ass kicking it will be you.
By someone who cares on January 27th, 2007 at 3:04 amoi oi oi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so big so hot so good..
and SCOTTY MTA…..thanks for paying those high ass taxes..makes me feel all warm inside when I’m out painting on your trains…no one is going to forget this for a long, long time..if ever.
You on the other hand have never been noticed, talked about or made a difference; which makes me think……..whose the real scum bag loser, us writers out there doing the doing or you sittin on your moms plastic wrapped couch eating Arby’s doing nothing to make any dent in society but girkin it..
On a side note, personally I make close 2 twice what you do in a year, and I don’t even know what you make…shit I’ll bet I make twice what you do in Canadian dollars
With much dissrespect,
By times-up on January 27th, 2007 at 8:16 pmCareer Graffiti Writers Everywhere!
LOL^^^^^^
By someone who cares on January 27th, 2007 at 9:16 pmA few comments were deleted because individuals were using multiple personas to try and induce arguments.
By Will on January 30th, 2007 at 5:06 pmSick!Mega worm!We want more!
By TSki on February 6th, 2007 at 9:57 amI dont know what to make of this whole train graffiti thing. I was in the site streetsaresayingthings.com and apparently they interviewed these guys. Supposedly they have a video going off on ebay in March. If this is real, these guys got some serious balls!
By Realy Weird on February 6th, 2007 at 11:50 pmThat interview in streetsaresayingthings.com is bullshit. That train is not.
By regular guy on February 7th, 2007 at 1:30 amWhat about that auction? If it is or isnt real, the whole thing doesnt make sense to me. How do you auction something that is bullshit?
By Realy Weird on February 7th, 2007 at 3:18 pmI think they’re saying the website is fake (maybe run by cops?) but the graffiti is real. Who knows whether the video is legit, or just some sort of hoax/trick/trap.
By Stranger on February 7th, 2007 at 3:20 pmTHIS IS SOME GARBAGE;WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT THIS SHIT>???THEY SHOULD TRY AND GET A LIFE!!!!
By JIMMY on February 9th, 2007 at 5:31 amBEWARE;THE WEBSITE IS DEFINATLY RUN BY NYPD…GUARENFUKENTEED….ALSO FRANK MUST BE A COP NO DUDE IN MUL HAS THE NAME FRANK…
By john on February 9th, 2007 at 4:52 pmFYI - I ordered a shirt the other day to see what I was going to get. I guess the curiousity got the best of me. Well, I just got the shirt today and its actually pretty cool. Props to MUL. If the cops are behind this, it’s a bit pathetic however they did mail me a cool shirt.
By Shirt on February 9th, 2007 at 8:05 pmIm just sayin the sight looks fake ass hell-And so does the shirts!!!!
By john on February 10th, 2007 at 1:25 amWHere was it postmarkef from? Chicago or NYC…?These guys are claming they are from Brooklyn…Bronx…..ect…Its Known : MUL founders & Crew are from Chicago……
By john on February 10th, 2007 at 1:28 amI bought a shirt 2 weeks ago. It was shipped from brooklyn.
By Rob on February 10th, 2007 at 9:39 pmTheres your answer; NYPD MUST BE SELLING THE SHIRT & DVD; MUL IS FROM SAID LOCATION..
By JOHN on February 11th, 2007 at 1:14 amMUL is the best ever. Plain and simple
By The One on February 13th, 2007 at 10:25 amWhat are they the best of? Writting their Graffiti? If they concentrated this hard on something constructive; Imagine how far they could Possibly go-in life!!!
By RONNY on February 15th, 2007 at 3:05 amSTOP the graffiti on trains. do it somewhere else noob artists. omg….
By THe person who h8s u all on February 16th, 2007 at 9:01 pm^^^^Ok give us your address and will write on your house instead.
By someone who cares on February 20th, 2007 at 5:34 pm….stop the graffiti on trains….are you f’ing crazy what the hell am I going to do every night, if it wasn’t for trains I’d probably be doing drugs drinking or in jail. Just like ’someone who cares’ said “wheres your house…we could do a colabo windows up`
By times-up on February 21st, 2007 at 6:56 pmgreat job…but i have to complain about something…why do u think that writting in europe its such an easy task? u should watch some movies from spain or poland for example and ull see real hardcore…the security is the same here…the difference is made by how many balls the writers have…from what i can see in us movies im really dissapointed…same styles as in the 70’s , real dirty(and im not talking about dirty in the good way) ,a lot of “kings” dont even know how to get a line straight and clean …. in europe if u paint a freight ure considered to be a toy (not that i agree with that) while in the us u think ure tough when u paint a freight and from what i can see is more easyer there…
( to give u an example on how the painting is done here - in one scene of an spanish movie those guys take the metro driver hostage while others from their crew paint a whole train…i dont really remember the name of the movie “bajo tierra” or “reality show” i think)
By wake up !!!! on February 26th, 2007 at 7:10 pmohhh….and take only one big city in europe and u will find more writers than in the whole us !!!
By wake up !!!! on February 26th, 2007 at 7:12 pmart is not a crime!!!!!!
By djuco on February 28th, 2007 at 6:06 amFuckin’ Kick ass..!!!!!!!!
By miNe on February 28th, 2007 at 12:11 pmAWESOME…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mad nice rich dude.
By maxwell arouse on March 3rd, 2007 at 11:30 pmREALLY BIG…But;Who did the outline? Norton from the honeymooners or RainMan from the self tittled Movie?
By RICHY on March 13th, 2007 at 5:47 amNice train kids; but its kinda bad when some of my shit from the 80’s blows this shit away. Its seems real messy;& sloppy from the flicks.Mad props anyhoo.
By NYCKINGSEEN on March 14th, 2007 at 9:51 pm-MAD
^^^^^^Thats mad tru, but still to pull off a 10 car top to bottom these days is pretty ridiculous….wasnt caine the last one to do some shit like that?
By BIGFATCENDEUCE on March 22nd, 2007 at 11:44 amO an to the euro writes throwin there shit up in here, yeh u guys can paint all you want and claim the amount of balls and shit, but just remember who started this graffiti shit, no matter what, at the end of the day, your still biting us
By BIGFATCENDEUCE on March 22nd, 2007 at 11:47 amI dont know who did this great feat but a couple years back i was in chicago where these guys are supposedly from. I stayed downtown & seen NAS MUL & NASTE tags all over downtown; with that etching tool.Im not sure if its the same guys but i thought some 1 might know?
By KNICKERBOCKERNYC on March 24th, 2007 at 6:46 pmIt was MADE U LOOK CREW From chicago:I know Chicago members include TEEL, ASK, C3PO, NASTE, GREVE, RINE, JUGO, JR, SKECH, TOKEYO, UNION ETHEIR, JEKEL, BRIBE, RIA, ……………..
By JACK on March 27th, 2007 at 11:19 pmawesome wholetrain..:P….its real good…but how mutch did u payed for the cans???…LOOOL
By baner on April 8th, 2007 at 7:13 pm^^^RACK THE PAINT KIDD!……lol
By TRAIN KILLER! on April 13th, 2007 at 11:37 pmMUL kills!!!!!!..madd ill
yall shuld see the CHICAGO MUL TRAINS…..KILLAH!
By TRAIN KILLER! on April 13th, 2007 at 11:38 pmWhere did u see other trains from them>???
By Jeff on May 15th, 2007 at 9:36 pmRespect to the MUL crew doin they thing WAY BIG! This truly was an amazing feat considering how risky it is to paint trains, especially NYC subways. Even if these dudes produced one whole car they would get mad props, but 10 WHOLE cars, all I can say is WOW.
By tejas on June 5th, 2007 at 10:49 pmOne-man wholetrain 6 cars in ROMANIA-Bucharest SUBWAY-2006 “GIPSY ERPS” check http://www.bucharestbusiness.tk
By Cadores on June 21st, 2007 at 2:06 amyo, ScottyMTA, most graff. artists are real artists that sell canvas paintings and shit.
so i bet most real writers make more money in a month than you make in half a year.
graffiti like that above is real art.
art criminal for life.
By grizzitygraff on July 20th, 2007 at 5:48 pm- BRÜT
there have been 12 car wholetrains done in europe by WUFC, MOA, SDK, FAMEcrew, etc soforth.
By dirty youleh on September 10th, 2007 at 8:13 amThe Berlinwriter RAGE/DSF made a ten car wholetrain. Seen in the rolling stars 3 video!
By Niggaz been smokin' sum... on December 30th, 2007 at 1:48 pmWas it done inn NYC- I think not, so it dont compare.
By KILLA on February 12th, 2008 at 10:29 pmWho Next?
By Whos Next? on March 9th, 2008 at 5:00 amIN did the 1st ever whole train 1975 # 2 or 3 IRT.
Nevertheless, the MUL is genius, well done and in Your Face!!!
By Old Schooler on April 6th, 2008 at 11:54 amGenius?
By AL on July 18th, 2008 at 12:18 amIts Graffiti not a bank robbery..A big hit would include a few million.
By AL on July 18th, 2008 at 12:19 ammad props to mul crew, pullin off a whole train is a massive job, even a wholecar is but to paint a wholetrain is wicked !
big ups ^^
Ustaske Smr Krew <—-
stay up!
By USTAR ONE SMR on November 17th, 2008 at 3:01 amrespek from nottingham england…..destroy all trainz i say sweeeeet as hell man.
By cruel103 amp syndicate on January 12th, 2009 at 11:31 amyou guys are too stuck up in the 70’s and 80’s. this is 2k9 and that was then. that is why too many us writers suck, they don’t develop any new styles, they just try to bite off what was popular back then. times are tough now, and it’s just plain silly to compare it to what was done in past times. that shit is outdated, today and the future is what matters. always. we can look back and learn, but pulling of the same shit as you did ten or twenty years ago is lack of creativity.
By thecatfromfarnorth on March 4th, 2009 at 8:05 amand i there has been done more than 12 wholetrains in europe. all has also done some. kegr also did a one man wholetrain, colours.
By thecatfromfarnorth on March 4th, 2009 at 8:08 amonly 12?? lool you can see my videos, me and the rest of my crew have done 4 wholetrains in greece, you can see 3 on video of us….and i can say, there has been done alooot more than 12 wholetrains in europe. you can see more than 12 only in Bucharest, berlin more than 5, sweden more than 20, spain i saw 2, one of them was a one man wholetrain, in prague i saw 1 wholetrain too, even in portugal i saw one at one month ago…..
http://www.youtube.com/user/benyordie
By benyone on May 12th, 2009 at 11:16 am