I am a beginer at carving cakes, but I want to take on the challenge of carving a locomotive. Any advice as to what recipe works better for carving and how to go about the carving. I am new to the site so I appologize if this information is already posted somewhere within the site.

Hi and Welcome to CC, LizzieAMG.

Everything you need to know to make, decorate and assemble tiered/stacked/layer cakes:

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-605188.html

Above super thread has popular CC recipes for popular crusting American buttercreams, several types of fondant and doctored cake mix (WASC and other flavor variations) - and so much more!

Secrets of cake carving:

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-59361.html

Thomas the Tank cake tutorial:

http://thomasthetankenginecake.blogspot.com/

Wilton also has a 3D train cake pan:

http://www.wilton.com/shapedpan/Choo-Choo-Train-Pan

HTH

Thank you so much for the info...It has helped me a lot.

You're most welcome.

Look forward to seeing photos of your cake.