scale rail posted:Just cut off the old back up light and glue a piece of plastic over the hole for a base for the light. I also would put two pickup rollers on the tender as they are very short.
Agreed on both counts. That is exactly what I did when I detailed my 1615's tender. I also replaced the metal-sideframe trucks with Lionel plastic-frame archbar trucks.
I've got to see if I can find that tender, and get a photo of it.