The (slow) ongoing march of electrification and the traffic demands of WW2 made it necessary for the PV&T to order another batch of electric locomotives. GE more or less stuck to the class B design, but modestly increased the power rating of the machines, switched to a low-profile cast truck, and reconfigured the carbodies to hold the new electrical systems.

9 were ordered in 1944; 4 were completed that year, but the other 5 were delayed until 1946.

The entire class operated unmodified until 1998, when #298 had a Pyrrhic victory (didn’t derail, but lost most of the front cab) when a pickup truck truck tried to race it to a crossing, at which point the operating department had them all rebuilt into class BCC3. Motor #294 was then retired to the Musée ferrovaire de Parsons Vale, while the remaining 8 were gradually remanufactured into BCC3 units that remain in service today.