After the end of the second world war, Canadian passenger counts didn’t drop quite as immediately as they did to the south, and in 1953 the LT&L made one last big effort to bring back riders.

PA-2s 700-703 were ordered from MLW, becoming the only PAs produced by them & the only PAs owned by a Canadian railway. But, alas!, these new locomotives, rolling stock, and paint schemes weren’t enough to stem the bleeding, and when the great purge of 244-equipped power happened this quartet was sent back to Montréal as a trade-in for new T-6s.