Has no controller or charger.
Welcome. A friend of mine just bought one of those in an estate sale. Unfortunately it wasn't well packed so the front is bent. Sigh. They are quite valuable, and coaches are available in 1/32nd from Accucraft.
Yours looks like quite a professional installation (Airwire supplies the pieces but doesn't put it together for you.) Maybe you can figure out who did the installation?
The CVP website will give you photos of the controller - hopefully, as JonD said, you can find it in the estate. If not you can buy one. Make sure you get the complicated one that can program the remote receiver (that board in your loco.) CVP may also be able to find you a professional installer who can interpret what you have and get it going.
[Just did a google search and found my old pal Geoff is a registered dealer, and I know he does a fantastic job.
Phone: 609.915.7112
www.oldirondesigns.com info@oldirondesigns.com]
It wasn't clear how the battery and tender go together, (lots of good padding by the look of it,) but there is a charging jack (bottom left.) You need to figure out what kind of batteries you have - there should be a manufacturers label on that yellow pack somewhere? As I see you are in NC, a good source of chargers (if you can't find your Dad's) would be Tenergy - I have both their NiCad and LiIon chargers.
The board on the left is a sound card, and there should be a speaker somewhere, presumably the other side of the board.
If you just want to put it on a shelf and see the wheels go around, you don't need all those electronics. You can buy rollers that it can sit on (or a professional 'Rolling Road" as mentioned,) and feed it 12-24V DC power through external wires or the rollers.