Back in ancient times (late 1800s to early mid 1900s) the Niagara, St Catharines & Toronto was also a carbuilder for the other radials owned by the Canadian National, and one of the pieces of equipment they made was a motorised pedestal cab flatcar for MOW. When the CN turned off the power and made the NStC&T into yet another diesel switching district, that little flatcar was demotored and kept as a transfer caboose.

When the revived NStC&T reactivated their Lakeshore spur and were forced to electrify it, this now-disused car was picked out, shoved into the engine shed that replaced the old shop buildings, and was reelectrified by the railroad’s MOW crew, who still had one person (only months away from retirement) who – briefly – worked in the old shops before the power was turned off, and who stayed in their job until this, the last motor that ever was built by the NStC&T, rolled out of the door and rolled away under it’s own power.