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I think you have answered your own question, unless you are wanting to model a specific individual train. Is it the one from the movie you want to replicate? In general, I think railroads in the US and Canada basically pressed everything into service that wasn't falling apart. A lot of steamers that were due to be retired/scrapped were refurbished and kept on, same for rolling stock - any and all flats, box cars, passenger cars, and so on. Some people note that dieselization would have been a 1940's phenomenon, instead of 50s-60s if it weren't for the wartime restriction on building non-military equipment. I think that the US military had their own trains at one point, but I don't have any details on that. Andrew
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