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Materials that you will need...
• 3 large, round corks
• 4 small corks and half a very small cork
• a piece of cork tile 1/8" (3mm) thick
• different color thumbtacks
• embroidery thread
• a large needle
• a knife
• some paraffin or a piece of candle wax
• sandpaper
Construction...
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Cut the 4 bases for the cars from the cork tile (see drawing
1 for size). Use a ruler to do this. The cork cuts easily
if you pass the knife through the paraffin once. Sand the
cut part.
The Locomotive...
• Glue the large cork to a base.
• Glue the smokestack on the large cork. Make it from
a little cork and half of a very small cork.
• Put 2 red thumbtacks on the front of the base. Stick
in 4 colored thumbtacks to make wheels (see drawing 2).
First Car...
 • Cut a large cork in half. Sand the cut ends. Glue
the two halves onto the base (see drawing 3).
• Stick in 4 thumbtacks for wheels.
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