Train Depot

Lay the long front wall flat on the table, engraved side up. The station doors go on first: the step, the vellum against it, the doors into the step's notches, then the hood over their top tabs. Then the four arched windows: sill, vellum, frame and hood. No snow caps here: the canopy keeps them dry. Each window goes on the same way, as shown above.

Hold the left end wall engraved side out. From the outside, push the clock's tenon through the slot, the clock face toward the platform side. From the inside, slide the wedge through the hole in the tenon, thin end first, from the middle of the wall toward the corner, until it stops. The wedge alone holds the clock.

Lay the floor and platform flat with the engraved planks on top.

Stand the left end wall on its end of the floor, clock facing out, and slide it in so its bottom tabs drop into the floor's notches.

The long front wall slides in from the platform side. Its bottom tabs go down through the slots in the platform, and its corner tabs mesh with the left end wall like fingers: work them together a little at a time.

The right end wall slides in from its end and locks into the long front wall the same way.

The long back wall slides in from its side and finishes the box. It meets two walls at once: seat one corner, then the other.

Push each bracket's tab into its tall slot in the long front wall. They go in before the canopy so it can rest on them. The brackets come in two mirror image pairs: the engraved rings face the ends of the station.

The narrow back roof panel goes on first. Its slots drop over the tabs along the tops of the two end walls.

Then the wide front panel with the deep canopy eave. It drops onto the tops of the end walls, rests on the four brackets, and laps over the top of the back panel at the ridge.

Build the chimney off the house first. Start with the tall wall, then slide the two angled side walls in from the sides, brick faces out, sloped edges toward the bottom. Slide the short wall in to close the box. Then set the chimney on the roof: its tabs go into the roof slots and the sloped edges sit flat on the roof.

Stand the station sign's two feet in their slots on the platform.

Slide the two bench ends onto the seat's and the back's end tabs. Then stand the bench with its four leg tabs down in the four small slots on the platform.