Although the Central's L3 and L4 classes were designed as dual-service power, the older 4-8-2s of the L1 and L2 classes were primarily freight engines. The L2d class had a grate area of 75 square feet, around 4600 square feet of evaporative heating surface, and 1930 square feet of superheater surface — enough steaming capacity to roll heavy freight trains at respectable speed over the system's "Water Level Route" profile. No. 2967, a representative of class L2d, poses in the yards at Lansing, Michigan in August 1953.Instead of the footboard pilot common on the L1 and L2 Mohawks, No. 2967 has the wooden "cowcatcher" pilot applied to many locomotives in road service, both passenger and freight, across the New York Central System. No. 2967, numbered 2467 before 1936, was retired and scrapped two years after I snapped this photo.