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Attached are some tender trucks which I added pick-up rollers when installing TMCC. I also route the wires through the truck pivot in the process.  I'm also showing electrical components from which I salvage a threaded sleeve and nut to make the pivot. Many panel mount  electrical component have hollow threaded sleeves, toggle switches,  potentiometers, and female jacks. All must be in a panel mount form and usually a mini or micro version.  Chinese Potentiometers off eBay are cheap enough to cannibalize for the tube and nut. The four trucks I am showing are from a 1990 Lionel 18009 NYC 4-8-2 Mohawk and a MTH 20-3029-1 Premier SP GS4 that had Proto-1. I added pickups to both front and rear trucks as well as a coil coupler to the Mohawk.  I also have a photo of the Bottom of the GS4 tender showing where I mounted the TMCC antenna. The tender has boxes on each side between the trucks which hide the bottom of the tender. I'll paint the antenna before I put the body back on. I have an idea that copper foil used for alarm systems on glass would work well on the bottom of a tender. Painted black it would be very hard to see even if the loco was running over a bridge above the viewers head.  I use a lot of Plexiglas to make mounts and insulators for pick ups and to mount TMCC boards.  If you look close you will see it in the photos of the trucks.  I plan to post a series of photos of the GS4 showing my mods when I finish the conversion.   J.