[CHAPTER XVIII]
A TRAIN AND RAILWAY STATION (Plate VIII)
A Train. (1) The Engine (Fig. 230). The body of the engine, A, is a long mantle-box or a piece of old curtain pole, about 4½ inches long. The wooden bottom, B C, is 6½ inches by 2¼ inches. A is glued to B C and kept in position by wooden blocks, E and F. The funnel and the dome are made from corks or pieces of round wood; their ends must be slightly concave, so that they may fit securely to A. A ring of cardboard is gummed to the top of the funnel, which may have a hole in it to take a piece of cotton-wool for smoke. The rim of the funnel and the dome are coloured yellow. The boiler can be covered with dark green or dark red paper. The buffers are pieces of round rod, to which cardboard discs are gummed.
Fig. 230
The cab is made of cardboard, as shown in Fig. 231, and is coloured to match the engine. G K L M is gummed to the back of A (Fig. 230), and its sides are fastened to the footplate by the flanges.
Fig. 232 shows the roof of the cab; the length, N O, is equal to the arc, G H K.
