I may be mistaken, but I don't believe Lionel ever made a GG1 with traction tires. There's one advertised on Ebay,
"Lionel 6-38303 Pennsylvania GG1 #2340 Post War Conventional Classics 2008". In looking at the pictures presented by the seller, it's clear that it "had" traction tires at one time.
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Dual motors, traction tires, etc...
The 38303 has tires and MagneTraction.
Interesting. Learned something new.
I have another question about Lionel GG1s. The 1977 release #8753 had nylon gears. When did Lionel go back to metal gears ?
Dan Padova posted:...When did Lionel go back to metal gears ?
1978
Thanks Rob. I thought that was the case, but couldn't recall what year. I bought an 8753 tuscan five stripe version from the original Nicholas Smith, down town. It had the nylon gears. It didn't take very long for them to fail. A fellow in Horsham, Pa, George Shreibner, if I have his name correct, did the repairs on it, installing metal gears. I think that was in 1979.
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