Tommy posted:I was assigned with technical intelligence in those days and as a railfan pulled the files on the evaluations of German engines. In those days copy machines were not readily available. The base commander was an idiot who cut all funding for storage of these files, test results, and thousands of photographs and film. The filing system of index cards was destroyed and troops were given several days to empty the building where these records were kept.
OK fine, but what proof do you have that ANY German steam locomotives were ever brought to the United States for evaluation? I can't believe that the War Production Board could give a rat's *** about ANYTHING that Germany had related to railroad technology, what with their light axle loadings limitations.
