@Ted S That's exactly what I was thinking. When I first cleaned up the New Haven & Virginian E-33s, I found it very odd that they still had MagneTraction because they were MPC era AND had the traction tires. I don't believe that they would've had the money back then to make alterations such as adding MagneTraction- it is possible that the LHS owner at the time did it prior to selling. Also, as @Adriatic stated above, the MagneTraction isn't as strong in the aforementioned rectifiers as opposed to post-war. That said, my father hasn't mentioned any alterations to these engines from our LHS(yup, it's . still around!) and that Virginian was one of his prized toy trains as a kid, followed closely by the New Haven. Unfortunately, the people who would know if it was altered(the father of the LHS and my grandfather) passed away within the the the last 5 and 2 years, respectively. I'm not sure if my dad would know if our LHS made any alterations but I will ask him. What I do know is he valued the Virginian so much that he barely ran it as even my grandmother said, "but I bet he didn't let you touch the Virginian" haha. If I get more information, I will provide it.
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