In 1937, class B1 #219 had an unfortunate encounter with a loaded logging truck that failed to stop, look, and listen, and even though there were miraculously no fatalities the front cab was pretty badly crumpled and needed to be cut off and replaced with a new one.

The streamlining craze had a pretty good hold on the railroad business at that time and the Portland shops were not immune to this craze, so they rebuilt #219 with a new cab that was strongly influenced by the Union Pacific’s M10003 & EMC E2 locomotives and modern automobile design.

The drawing doesn’t show it, but there’s a lot of metal forming making that stub nose curve like the UP units, and unlike UP M10003 219’s cab was made from steel plate. So this was the last streamlining on a PV&T motor until the purchase of the class D motors, then the Portland-built class B4/E1s in 1967.

As for #219? It ran another 45 years before being retired, then donated to the NRM as the sole survivor of the early EMC-style bulldog nose streamliners.