In 1929 (juuuuust before the great depression came along and made life interesting for the Golden Horseshoe’s radials), the Brantford & Hamilton Air Line ordered four Baldwin-Westinghouse class D motors to handle freight traffic.

These were unusually powerful for a class D motor (1050 HP) and were able to run under both 600 and 1500 vdc for through-running on the LE&N. but spent the first 50 years of their life running up and down the 30-odd kilometers of line between the radial’s namesake cities. In the late 1970s they went up to the TSR to supplement their (newer, but much less powerful) class 1067’s, then were formally transferred over when 3 Niagara Junction E10b’s were purchased to replace them.

ORRC #901 had been out of service for about a decade when it was donated to the Halton County Radial Railway in 1996, but the other 3 still operate on the TSR & north end of the LE&N.