12-24-2011, 11:15 AM
None of the photos in the link were taken from a straight on side view. As near as I could tell looking at them, the front truck of the tender has the front wheel just about even with front of the fireman's platform at the front of the tender. If you have a large radius, that will allow close coupling of the tender to the engine, I think you could model that feature without having operational problems. I would just mount the drawbar to the front truck mounting screw on the tender. Of course it won't work on anything much smaller than a 30 inch radius and might require an even larger radius. Of course the limiting factor on radius I think is how much space you have between the tender body and the back of the cab. Also the back of the cab being a solid wall, makes it difficult to do any sort of tight radius because a normal cab without a back wall might allow a tender to slightly encroach on a tight radius, no encroachment possible with your cab design on this model.