In April of 1943 Jack Delano was visiting an Illinois Central rail yard, along with some of their facilities in Chicago. He spied this New York Central locomotive spotting cars at the I.C. freight terminal located on South Water Street. The locomotive is a 600 HP model SW1 switcher built by EMD. The number 622 was in the N.Y.C.’s second order of this type.

The N.Y.C. was one of the railroads that leased terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. in Chicago.