In this photo taken in December, 1932, in Niagara Falls, New York, 2-8-2 No. 2022 poses at the coaling tower in her former identity as Michigan Central No. 7922. A representative of class H7c, No. 2022 had 63-inch drivers, 27x30-inch cylinders, and a locomotive weight of 330,600 pounds. A 1913 product of the American Locomotive Company's Brooks Works, she carried a boiler pressure of 190 pounds per square inch and mustered a tractive effort of 56,100 pounds. A booster applied to this class added another 10,400 pounds of tractive force.

No. 2022 belonged to a group of former Michigan Central H7 locomotives that were assigned to the Canada Southern, the Michigan Central's extension across southern Ontario (hence the required "cowcatcher" pilot instead of the usual footboards used on NYC freight locomotives). They were among the last steam engines operated by the New York Central System. A Gary Steubben photo in George Elwood's collection, taken in Fort Erie, Ontario in June, 1955, shows No. 2022 still under steam, and she was not retired till February 1956. (Some 2-8-0s remained in transfer service in the Buffalo area till April, 1957.) For more photos of Class H7 engines on the Canada Southern, visit the Canada Southern Website's Michigan Central 2-8-2 Page.