Locomotive Stats:
Builder |
Build Date |
Build Number |
Wheels |
Cylinders |
Driver Diameter |
Empty Weight |
Weight on Drivers |
Operating Pressure |
Traction Effort |
Vulcan Iron Works |
10/1922 |
3264 |
2-4-0 |
11x16 |
30" |
15 tons |
13.5 tons |
100 psi |
7,405 lbs |
History-
0-4-0T #22 was built by the Vulcan Iron Works in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1922 and was sold to the Wayne Coal Company in Clay Bank, Ohio. Clay Bank no longer shows on maps, but in the 1920s there was a Clay Bank Station in the coal country of Wayne County, near Jackson, Ohio, and it is assumed that this was the location of the Wayne Coal Company. At least three Wayne Coal engines still exist. #22 changed hands several times, being passed in 1927 to Birmingham Rail and Locomotive Products, a broker based in Birmingham, Alabama (the engine probably never actually went to Birmingham), Standard Coated Products in Hephzibah, Georgia (in 1927), which became Albion Caolin (also in Hephzibah, Georgia), Merry Brothers Brick and Tile Company in Augusta, Georgia (in 1945), and private collector Charles Weber in Archbold, Ohio.
0-4-0T #22 was built by the Vulcan Iron Works in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1922 and was sold to the Wayne Coal Company in Clay Bank, Ohio. Clay Bank no longer shows on maps, but in the 1920s there was a Clay Bank Station in the coal country of Wayne County, near Jackson, Ohio, and it is assumed that this was the location of the Wayne Coal Company. At least three Wayne Coal engines still exist. #22 changed hands several times, being passed in 1927 to Birmingham Rail and Locomotive Products, a broker based in Birmingham, Alabama (the engine probably never actually went to Birmingham), Standard Coated Products in Hephzibah, Georgia (in 1927), which became Albion Caolin (also in Hephzibah, Georgia), Merry Brothers Brick and Tile Company in Augusta, Georgia (in 1945), and private collector Charles Weber in Archbold, Ohio.
Left to right- Randy Catri, Mike Hetrick, and Ike Henry stand in front of #22 just recently named after him. Photo by Paul Woodring.
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Engine #22 arrived at Cedar Point in 1963 and was converted to a 2-4-0 with tender. It was named "Myron H" in 1981 after mild mannered Mike "Myron" Hetrick, who succeeded Jack Foster as the superintendent of the CP&LE. Mike was a retired New York Central Railroad employee who met Cleveland Browns part owner George Roose while Mike was working as a security guard at the Cleveland stadium.
The Myron H. had been retired by the late 1980s and sat in the back of the engine house with the #5 Jack Foster. The original plan was to restore one or both engines for sister park Valleyfair in Minneapolis. Both of the Vulcan engines were sent to Shop Services in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, to be restored in the early 1990s. Myron was completed in July 1990 and returned to Cedar Point shortly after. The locomotive has been in active service ever since and is today one of the two mainstay locomotives. |