After the second world war ended in 1945, traffic levels dropped on the PV&T and some now-redundant units were sold on the secondhand market. One of these units was class A #206, which was purchased by the Brantford & Hamilton Air Line – a radial in the Golden Triangle that was still seeing freight traffic levels increase.

After being shipped to Hamilton it was rebuilt with end platforms & train doors, rewired for 1500 vdc, and equipped with trolley poles, then put into service pulling trains up and down the Niagara Escarpment (freeing a couple of the B&HAL’s Baldwins for operation on industrial trackage in Hamilton) and there it continued to run for many years, through changes of name (B&HAL to H&B) and mergers (ORRC, then OSW, then back to H&B after the LT&L purchased the OSW in 2007)

It no longer closely resembles the class As that stayed on PV&T rails, but like them it continues to operate today.