When the Quebec Central died (for the second time) in 2006, their three GMD FP7s ended up being shoved onto sidings in East Broughton, PQ (1300,1302) and Vallée-Jonction (1305).

After Transports Québec purchased the line, the LT&L leased the section from St Georges to Thetford Mines for 5 years, operating it with their existing motive power and leaving all of the QC’s motive power as is.

Until 2009, when FP7 #1305 was cut up for scrap, and the LT&L stepped in to purchase the other two. These units were in an unhappy state (what with being exposed on a siding) and had EMD prime movers, which were a no-no for the all-Alco/MLW/ILW LT&L. But their carbodies were good, so they were sent to ILW to be rebuilt.

They weren’t high priority units to get back into service, so they didn’t come out of the shops until 2012 as shiny new “F750"s with with safety cabs – the Portland safety cab is a fairly close match to an F-unit cab, so these units ended up having the existing nose shell fitted around a safety cab skeleton – an AC drivetrain and 2400HP Cummins QSK50 prime movers.

Unlike some of the later remanufacturing projects ILW has done, the cosmetic integrity of these units were not respected. ILW was, at that time, doing alco-style radiators, and in the case of the F750 this means that the carbodies had air intake panels inserted with a pancake fan on the roof.

These two units never made it onto the roster, but were sold to the JLP as pool units and are now being used as pilot locomotives on intermodal freights.

The purchase of the Ottawa Valley Railway brought two FP9s onto the roster, which were also sent to ILW for remanufacturing into F750s (these ones made it onto the roster, and are also used as intermodal pilot locomotives.)