Helper engines on the AT&SF out of Prescott, Arizona

[Anonymous]

I am trying to find out what type of steam engines were used as helpers going south out of Prescott, Arizona. I grew up in Prescott and one time my grade school class went down to the depot and got to climb around on the helper engine that use to shove the train with four F units up over the hill towards Skull Valley. My memory is that the helper was a 4-6-2 Pacific. However, David Myrick's book "Santa FE To Phoenix" never mentions Pacifics being used on the line. He does show pictures of 4-8-2 Mountain and 2-8-2 Mikado locomotives on the line. He also has a picture of a helper Mikado on the wye at the top of the hill (Alto). Is there any way of finding out what locomotives were in helper service at Prescott from about 1953 to 1962?

[Anonymous]

Though I live in, Japan, I make an indoor layout of G gauge in a model in a town of#12288;Prescott, State of Arizona .
I was, now 61 years old, but longed for the locomotive which ran in America since the days of a child.
An ATSF railroad is in particular an object of strong interest.
It begins in having had a replica of an electrical industry signboard of route 69 in its hand when I say why I chose Prescott as a model of a layout.
I decided that I knew that route 69 ran with ATSF in Prescott and did, this in a model.
I pull a passenger car and a freight train mainly on an F unit of EMD in a layout now.
I chose 2-8-2 Mikado as this as a helper engine.
It is the thing which wants to try to watch a photograph of a David Myrick's book whom there was in your message by all means.

[Anonymous]

I was able to obtain introduced David Myrick's book "Santa FE To Phoenix" today.
This book is the fifth book of the series.
I found it from the first to the fourth at another publishing company.
The publishing company already withdraws now from a market.
Fortunately I was able to watch the fourth book of the series.
The book which I bought this time is the latest the fifth version.
It is the book which looks very good so that I understand Prescott, but I become it whether I understand the contents, and time is necessary.