Ken Wing
You can make a pickup for the coal tender as seen below. The tender is pickup is easy to make and add to the front trunk that does not have a coupler. I have made over 10 of these hard to find pick ups for my train collection.
I added a homemade light pick up to one of the trucks, made from brass shim stock and a piece of tin can for durability. The pickup must be no wider than 3/8 inch so it will not short on Remote Control track sections. I use trucks without working couplings to have room for pick up. The white wooden block is glued on with E6000 glue and serves to move the pick up back and provides a place to put a small screw to hold the brass shim pick up. See the folded edge on the shim to keep it from moving side wise and the plastic of the truck extends out past the wood block.
Ground wire on the other truck for the Christmas tree 12 v light bulb and a socket that was mounted in the cab.
This write up is from a former OGR post of mine.
Charlie
