Check out the process! Click on any picture to see a larger, more detailed, picture.
I've started coloring the frosting at this point. Cake colors are pretty cool - much stronger than color drops. 
| The purple and green are actually pretty vivid - hard to tell here. 
| The cakes are almost all cooled off now. Just 5 mini-loaves. The disposable cake pans come for about a buck and a half for a set of 5. 
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Look at how a little dot of what looks like orange... 
| Mixes in to become... 
| Bright Yellow! 
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Okay - the cakes are a bit too risen to work as train cars - so I gotta knife 'em! 
| A little off the top, a smidge off the sides, turn it over, and voila! 
| Here they all are, all trimmed. I took the last loaf and cut it in pieces to pile on to make the cars different shapes. I staged the shapes here to see how they'd look. 
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I was at a bit of a loss as to how to even start, but I decided to start with blue for the engine and just go for it. It's on wax paper here. 
| I was REALLY at a loss as to how to frost the top piece. In retrospect this would have been a LOT easier if I had just put it down to frost. We love frosting at our house. What can I say. 
| Look - Oreo wheels! 
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Heh heh - my next victim! 
| Green for this one... 
| Some pull-apart red licorice for outlines... 
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Another view... 
| Precious candy cargo! 
| A dab of frosting to stick some M&Ms on the wheels. 
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Another view... 
| The first two cars! 
| Another victim! This one is the loaf, and two thin slices from the 5th loaf piled on top - with a layer of frosting in between. 
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There's the in-between layer! 
| Look - it's magically done! 
| Another view... 
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The caboose! Wish I remembered it should have been red... 
| Yellow is cool too though. 
| Loaded up with licorice and mini-marshmallows! 
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Another view. 
| You can't really tell, but I squirted a bunch of the pink frosting on the purple car and took another picture. I miscounted the number of cars and mixed up 5 colors - I only needed 4 since the last loaf gets cut up and put on the other loaves, not used as a separate car - oops! 
| I moved them all to the table to look at it all together - whee! 
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Another view... 
| And yet another! 
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