Critter for an in-progress diorama, so I'm giving Gn15 a try.
The boys are trying to figure where to cut:

The first task was to take the Davenport apart, get rid of that pesky
DCC stuff and indelicately narrow the frame with a cut-off wheel & bench grinder:

The narrowed frame was then boxed in with styrene and is now no wider
than the original sideframes. A humble start, but keep in mind one of
the reasons I left model railroading 20+ years ago was because I
couldn't get anything to run if my life depended on it.
Wish me luck.....
