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Okay, my goof.... clarification:  The copper strips would be applicable to plastic truck sets only. The die cast trucks are taking ground power directly to the frame. And then the roller pickup is getting power from the center rail. If you take off the shell to one of these, you should see a wire screwed into the sheet meal body frame someplace, which would be the ground. With plastic truck sets, that wire would have to go to the wipers hitting the axles of the wheel sets.

It's hard to tell from the photo, but I don't think the postwar whistle tender you've pictured above has a coil coupler on it. If it did, it would have a sliding shoe in addition to the center rail roller pick up. So I'm thinking both roller pickups are wired to the whistle assembly.

Here's a website for you that might come in handy if you're not already aware of it. Only postwar stuff on it, but still useful.

http://postwarlionel.com/

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