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Locomotives In A Bottle


We’ve all probably heard of ships in a bottle, but trains in a bottle???

Shawn has kindly sent in some info for publication about how he approaches the hobby.

Shawn builds locomotives in bottles. Just a few examples are EBT #15, The General,1829 Stephenson Rocket, Porter Pusher, French 2-10-2. He starts by picking a locomotive and finding as much info as he can about the size and history of the locomotive. He gets pictures and scales them to the bottle size. Shawn builds the locomotive outside the bottle and then inserts it in bottle a piece at a time starting with track then wheels and up. Shawn had some bottles hand blown as this show off the model best. His scaling is between 1/120 to 1/150 (close to N scale). He uses silicon sealer to hold track to the bottle. Shawn then use both super glue and wood glue.

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