Railbus number B-1 was built in April 1922 by the Mack International Motor Company (Mack Trucks Inc.) of Allentown, Pennsylvania, for the Northern Pacific Railroad. The body was by McGuire-Cummings and it was originally powered by a Mack 4 cylinder 40 hp engine. In January 1929 it was bought by Winnipeg Hydro and ran a regularly scheduled service from Pointe du Bois to Lac du Bonnet carrying freight, mail and passengers until the Lac du Bonnet line was abandoned in 1962 in favour of road service. B1 was pressed into temporary service at one stage to haul, via flatcars, two crawler tractors and a tandem dump truck. It is now an item in the Winnipeg Railway Museum.
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