The loco is magnificent (if one can use such a grandiloquent term for such a tiny engine). And the cut coconut fiber looks to be a good stand in for sugar cane.
I have never tried to build one, but have always been fascinated by the cane railways of Hawai'i, and also once contemplated building a model of an imaginary narrow-gauge copra, cocoa, and general merchandise railway (the Rabaul, Pomio, and Gasmata) in New Britain.
Don
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