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Nature's Wonderland Locomotive Kitbash

Several months ago I decided to create a full scale CAD model of the locomotive from the Nature's Wonderland Railroad using Autodesk Fusion 360 CAD software. That effort was aided greatly by James Keeline's impressive collection of vintage Disney documentation and memorabilia. Fusion 360 CAD Rendering I was already aware of Sam Towler's  Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland HO Scale model .  It is an impressive labor of love. I wasn't looking to start a project of that magnitude, but still wanted to have the correct look and feel of the original NWRR engine, tender and cars. The engine was designed by R. L. Stein and the cars were done by Bob Gurr, who also had some recollections of the tender/power unit. Mine Train thru Nature's Wonderland HO Scale Model Looking around for reference material and a real scale model to start from, I discovered there aren't many scale model locomotives which looked like the NWRR engine. For some reason the Porter