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drilled the new steps with the #68 bit and soldered them to thewires (Photo 4).While I was working at the back of the tender, I filled in therear tender beam with styrene strips (Photo 5).4Fig. 15New SidesI had intended to stop at this point. The PRR tender lookedlike a pretty good facsimile of the N&W tender behind the G1(Photo 6 ). However, I noticed the PRR tender had a line ofdouble rivets running horizontally along the side while the G1had several rows of vertical rivets. I decided new sides wereneeded.6I considered making new sides from 0.002” shim brass (I’ddone this in HO) and gluing it in place. I don’t have the toolsto deal with brass any thicker than that, so I even considered0.005” styrene.I solicited opinions from some online friends and Bob Turner(yes, OSN’s Bob Turner) offered to make me new sides if Iprovided him with the sheet brass and a template. I wrappedthe tender with a sheet of paper and traced the outline. I putthis on my scanner and imported the scan into a drawing program.I then drew the outline and placed rivet lines in appropriateplaces. (I used a low-res photo of a real N&W tender I24 • O Scale Trains - July/Aug ’09found online to help me place the lines.) The result is shown inFigure 1 full size for O Scale. I sent this with a sheet of 0.010”brass to Bob and he sent me back trimmed and riveted sideswhich I gently bent around the tender body (Photo 7).Next I needed to figure out how to keep the wrappersattached to the tender body. The PRR tender has a slight flareat the top of the body and the wrappers would not fit tightly. Ifiled and ground the flare off so the sides were straight and thismade the wrappers fit nice and tight.I made a clamp from brass angle to hold the wrapper sidesat the coal doors in the front of the tender and I also drilledthrough the wrappers at the handrail holes. I held the angle