Well I wanted to get a pic of this SP HiCube (thinking it was an older type) but I think I was mistaken... it's not that old Anyways, you can see my first ever railfanning efforts (in a moving vehicle) in this album I was mostly looking for grafitti and weathering ideas...
I like the shot because it accomplishes one of your goals. That of getting ideas for grafitti and weathering. As for a better identification, I will leave that to someone more expert in that department than I.
I found some references to these 86' Hi Cube cars in HO during a quick and dirty Google search http://www.lankel.com/86fthi4d8dbo.html
The ones I saw had the big SP and the arrows [ 04. February 2005, 19:40: Message edited by: nscale_lover ]