Babcock and Wilcox Canada Ltd.

OSR provides a locomotive for the large Babcock and Wilcox boiler plant in Cambridge, (formerly Galt) Ontario. This unit is a GE 70-tonner, L4 formerly used at PSTR (although always privately owned). This unit has a long and interesting history being built in October 1946 as the second 70-tonner for a small shortline in New York, Saratoga & Schuylerville 4, the unit became in November 1954 Claremont & Concord 11; then Montpelier & Barre 23; Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington ("Hoot, Toot & Whistle") 23. These were all Pinsly owned shortlines. It was sold in November 1960 to the New York City Transit Authority (MTA) in South Brooklyn as 13 (re# 20009 and back to 13). Sold again in November 1981 through George R. Silcott (Dealer) it came to Canada arriving in December at Thurso Pulp & Paper (parent company of the non-common carrier railway Thurso & Nation Valley) as their 13 (2nd). It was re-engined in 1983 with a Cummins 600 HP truck engine.

Interestingly enough, T&NV once owned the first GE 70-tonner, demonstrator 7001 built 5, 1946 and sold October 1946 to Singer Manufacturing Co. parent of the T&NV. It became T&NV 5 and went to Canada & Gulf Terminal in 1949 in exchange for their 44-tonner 355, which became T&NV 8.

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