I am working on a major airfield rebuild project for FSX that has been on the go since before Xmas last year and could do with some advice from the train buffs in here.
It's a USAAF training base in New Mexico and the site was HUGE. The apron has parking for 70+ B-17's and I am reworking the airport to tie in with the A2A B-17 A-S release so that people have a period airport to operate from.
The base had it's own railyard and I am currently modelling and painting all the rolling stock (box cars, flat cars and tank cars) and I have been wondering about what was likely to have been used as motive power for moving the cars around the yard (i.e. a shunter). I am not really interested in the heavy power units that probably hauled the main trains in and out as I just want to represent something that might have been kept on-site for shuffling a few cars between the various spur lines.
Time period is 1943, location is southern New Mexico and the railyard was probably supplied/serviced by the Santa Fe railroad company. So does anyone have any ideas on what I should be looking at in terms of a shunting power unit? Steam? Diesel? (were diesel powered units even available in 1943?)
If anyone can come up with a type (model name and/or model number) and if possible a photo or line drawing I can use for modelling purposes I would really appreciate it as my knowledge of US railways of the period is less than nil!
Thanks for looking.
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