The best gift to give a railroader for Father's Day is...
Ties. Bad joke. But this summer I got a little bored and was looking at the Algoma Central 61' gondola I had kitbashed from two Model Die Casting 40' gondola kits a while ago. I hadn't done anything more than painted it and then it sat. And sat. And sat. So I broke out the CDS dry transfers I had won on eBay years ago (so long ago, I was living in North Bay, which is a long time ago) and tried them out. Or at least I tried to. They wouldn't transfer from the sheet to the plastic body of the model for some reason. I got the bright idea to burnish them on to some blank decal film and sure enough, they transferred on to that. So, now I had waterslide decals for my AC gondola. And they went on beautifully. I did replace the numbers with ones taken from a CN locomotive decal set, as the numbers were of better quality. The original purpose of these gondolas (I believe) was to haul trees to be turned into pulp. I've also heard that they were sometimes u
