A little more progress… I made a temporary lead truck with some old 3 rail axles. Since it’s just a cosmetic restoration at this point I’m not worried about non-insulated wheel sets… the wheel sets in the trucks under the tender are non-insulated also, they were on the tender that came with this engine, I’m guessing that tender was used with an outside 3rd rail engine…
If I put a pilot on it, painted the frame/running gear, and added the lower half of the firebox it might actually look halfway decent…