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I looked in one of my old copies of Asphalt Spraypaint Streetcar Marking Illustrated and found something that looked like what I was looking at. It was three hours later, after we had installed a Swedish Sauna that I realized it was just a gang tag. On the bright side, we might be able to incorporate the Sauna into the streetcar route. The tourists will love it!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another day of progress was lost by a series of gang tagging marks that were relatively far away from the proposed route. \u201cThere are always some dumb ideas when politicians get involved,\u201d said construction worker Travis Brown. \u201cSo I didn\u2019t think it was that far outside the realm of possibility that there were streetcar markings on the side of an abandoned building, and that they were indicating that the rails would go up, taking the trains up a wall, through an abandoned apartment, and into a new organic brewery and fair-trade coffee location. 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