All of the passenger cars were made with the same frame design, but they had different shells. Here, I am attaching the hitch mount to the car frame. We made sure the frame was built correctly before cutting the wooden shell of the train car so it could fit properly.

Here, we are checking if the wooden walls  are flush against the train car frame. We are also making sure the walls are slightly longer on each end to fit with the short walls without any protruding edges.

I was in charge of making all of the pins for the train. The pins connected the train trucks to the train cars. I used a lathe with a solid steel rod to create the pins. This job was difficult in many ways. I needed to follow very specific measurements or else the train would be dangerous for the riders. I also needed to replicate the same piece many times and each one had to be identical within a small margin.

The production of these pins was also quite dangerous. The constant contact of my high speed carbide bit with the steel rod created a lot of heat within the steel. As I was shaving off layers of the steel, I was constantly showered with hot metal shavings. Sometimes, when these shavings would hit my skin they would burn and fuse to my skin. Because of the high RPM of the lathe, anything coming off is moving at an extremely fast speed. When I was cutting off a pin with a parting tool (long, knife like tool), the tool shattered (picture above), and I felt a piece of it strike my chest. It had happened so fast I could not react, but luckily my shirt had protected my skin from being damaged.

Here, we attached the slanted legs to the vertical one using the bracket I had created.

This is a close up of the bracket we used to build our frame.