Cut a round opening in this, near the bottom. To cut window, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) When window is cut, paste some waxed paper over the window opening on the inside of the box. Draw the outline of the window first with help of pencil and ruler. You do this just as you cut the window for your station, only you must make the ticket-booth window smaller. You will need to stand it on its rim and cut a window in the part of the box that is the front of the ticket office. The ticket booth is the lower half of a box that is about four inches wide and an inch or so deep. If you look at the picture of my Boxville Station, you will see a lady buying her ticket of the ticket agent. A little doll can be placed in the ticket office. You will need to have a bench or two and a ticket office in your station building.
Next, make a signboard for your station, and glue it to the roof. The pencil point will be firm when run into the upper hole of a standing spool, and when both pillars are so fixed, the roof will be quite firm. Press the point of a pencil down through each right-hand top corner of the long station platform's top, and secure the points below by running them into standards made of spools. You will need two pillars at the right-hand end of your platform to keep the long roof up. Then, turn this end rim upward and slip it under the right-hand rim of the cover which forms the roof of the station building itself. To secure it in place, just cut two end corners on the box rim as far as the top of the cover. If you wish to have a roof over your station platform, you will need the fourth shoe-box cover to make this. The third shoe-box cover is the roof of the station building, and you must fit it down over the station. Place the building at the left of the platform made of the shoe-box covers. See, it is placed far back, so that there will be a platform in front. Place two shoe-box covers end to end upon the floor or table, for you can put the building upon them now. If you do not, the doors will not be straight. Use whatever colors you have, but if you use your water-colors, keep the work as dry as you can. If you wish, you may color the doors of your station building green or brown. You can measure it by the cardboard piece you cut from the box. The waxed paper should be cut a bit longer and wider than the opening of the window. (To cut window, see Diagram One, A, page 166.) When you have finished this, take a piece of the waxed paper you have and paste it inside the station building over the window space to make window-glass. Cut it around on all four sides, and keep to the line you have drawn with pencil.
The doors must open toward each other, so cut each door space down the side next to the window space. (To cut doors, see Diagram Two, A, page 167.) Cut the top line of each door space. Now, you can take your scissors and cut the doors in the box. Half-way between the door spaces you have drawn, mark off an oblong window space two inches high and three inches wide. Use a pencil and ruler for the work, so that it will be even. The other shoe-box cover is the roof of the platform, and this is supported by two long lead-pencils.ĭo you want to make a Boxville Station? To begin, you must make two doors and a window on the part of your box that is the front of the station.Ībout an inch and a half from either end of your box, mark a door space four inches high and two inches wide. The platform is made of two shoe-box covers placed end to end upon the floor, and the roof of the station is one shoe-box cover. The building itself, you see, is the lower half of a shoe-box placed upon its side. You can make just the same kind of little station as you see in this picture. Boxville Station has a waiting-room with a real ticket booth and benches. It is not a tin thing such as you buy ready-made in a toy shop. Material Required for Making a Boxville Railway Station: one shoe-box and four shoe-box covers, one small box about four inches square and without a cover, the shallow covers of two small boxes three inches long, two long pencils, and a small square of waxed paper.īoxville's Railway Station is a real railway station. This shows the ticket booth made from a shallow box about four inches square. Pencils are used for pillars that hold the long roof of the platform in place. Boxville Railway Station is built from a shoe-box and four shoe-box covers.
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