The Chemin de fer terminal de Montréal’s Diesel Locomotive Pool was formed to maintain a power pool for unelectrified lines when the LT&L bought a handful of Bombardier HR-412 locomotives after the Canadian National hot potatoed these unreliable things out the door. These new units, plus a handful of Alcos that were newly out of a job as electrification proceeded on D&H South, went into a locomotive pool, soon to be joined by what seems to be a neverending stream of GP38s (et al) from newly purchased railroads.
As of 2022, the DLP has all of the original 10 HR-412’s on its roster, 7 FPA-4s, 2 FPB-4s, 4 RS-2s, 2 RS-3s, 2 RS-11s, a dozen C-425s & M-420s, two F750s, a dozen M-630 & M-636s, another 7 centuries that are being stripped for parts before an eventual rebuild to ILW “C-644"s, a large collection of ILW’s RS-38 (remanufactured GP38 & GP38-2s) and then something on the order of 180 EMDs of one sort or another. Originally, around half of these units were leased back to various subsidiaries of the Parsons Vale, but by 2025 most of them were returned from lease and are now, like the rest of the DLP’s roster, either leased to other railroads, in storage, or being remanufactured into more modern units.
Initially, the DLP’s locomotive pool was stored at the TdM shops, but as their pile of EMDs started to grow the DLP purchased the (newly acquired, but unused) LT&L’s ex-CAR yard in Sherbrooke, PQ as their locomotive warehouse.
| number(s) | total | type | lessee | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4700-4701 | 2 | FPA-4 | LT&L | Ex-VIA, exx-Canadian National. Updated with 480V HEP generators. |
| 4702 | 1 | FP-450A | NY&LE | Ex-VIA, exx-Canadian National; reengined with a Tier-4 Cummins QSK50 in 2018. |
| 4703-4704 | 2 | FP-450A | Ex-VIA, exx-Canadian National units. Scheduled for remanufacturing. | |
| 4705-4706 | 2 | FPA-4 | Ex-Napa Valley Wine Train #70-71; purchased from ILW after trade-in (2024). | |
| 4707 | 1 | FP-450A | OC | Ex-Napa Valley Wine Train #72; purchased from ILW after trade-in. |
| 4708 | 1 | FP-450A | OC | Ex-Napa Valley Wine Train #73; was reengined with an EMD 645; purchased from ILW after trade-in. |
| 4800 | 1 | RS-29 | PTM | Ex-Lake State Railway RS-11 #1195 |
| 4801 | 1 | RS-11 | PTM | Ex-Napa Valley Wine Train #62; purchased from ILW after trade-in. |
| 4900-4903 | 4 | RS-250 | PTM | Ex-Detroit & Mackinac RS-2s #469,481,977,4610 |
| 4910-4901 | 2 | RS-350 | PTM | Ex-Detroit & Mackinac RS-3s #974,975 |
| 4920-4923 | 4 | C-425 | Ex-Lake State Railway #181,281,381,1280; being remanufactured into Dl13m2s | |
| 4940-4947 | 8 | M-420 | Ex-Lake State Railway #698,798,3500,3504,3515,3563,3571,3575; no prime movers; to be remanufactured. | |
| 5000-5004 | 5 | HR-412 | to be remanufactured. | |
| 5005-5009 | 5 | HR-412 | ex-D&H units | |
| 5010-5012 | 3 | M-630 | ||
| 5013-5016 | 4 | M-630 | ||
| 5020-5024 | 5 | M-636 | OC | on the line from Hawk Junction to Montréal |
| 5025 | 1 | M-644 | LT&L | ex-CP #4723 (recovered from display in Farnham, PQ) |
| 5030-5032 | 3 | C-644 | PTM | ex-CBNS C-630s #2016,2028,2029 |
| 5033 | 0 | C-630 | ex-CBNS #2032; to Delaware-Lackawanna 2017 | |
| 5034-5035 | 2 | C-644 | ex-CBNS C-630s 2034,2035. | |
| 5101,5105 | 2 | GP35 | ex-GLC, listed for sale. | |
| 5200-5215 | 10 | GP38 | ex-D&H, BAR units; tricolor paint | |
| 5200-5201 | 2 | GP38 | ex-D&H, BAR units; tricolor paint | |
| 5202-5215 | 4 | GP38 | ex-D&H, BAR units; tricolor paint | |
| 5300-5304 | 5 | GP38-2 | ex-D&H, BAR units; PRR(y) paint | |
| 5305-5320 | 6 | GP38-2 | ||
| 5312-5320 | 0 | GP38-2 | scrapped 2025 | |
| 5321-5333 | 0 | GP38-2 | to NRE 2021 | |
| 5334-5353 | 0 | GP38-2 | scrapped 2024 | |
| 5354-5071 | 0 | GP38-2 | traded to ILW for new RS-38bs | |
| 5372-5086 | 25 | GP38-2 | stored, listed for sale. | |
| 5400-5407 | 2 | GP39-2 | ||
| 5500 | 1 | GP39-3 | ||
| 5550-5551 | 2 | GP40-3 | ||
| 5560-5563 | 4 | GP30 | ||
| 5600-5602 | 3 | SLG3 | remanufactured at the BAR’s Derby Shops. | |
| 5700-5716 | 17 | SD40 | ||
| 5723-5735 | 13 | SD40-2 | ||
| 5745 | 1 | SD40-2 | ||
| 5749 | 1 | SD40-2 | ||
| 6000-6006 | 7 | RS-38 | ||
| 6007-6019 | 13 | RS-38 | ||
| 6020-6023 | 4 | RS-38 | ||
| 6024-6026 | 3 | RS-38 | ||
| 6027-6032 | 6 | RS-38 | listed for sale. | |
| 6053-6056 | 4 | RS-38 | listed for sale. | |
| 6057-6085 | 30 | RS-38 | ||
| 7000-7001 | 2 | F750 | OC | formerly QC 1300,1302; recovered from East Broughton in 2022 |
| 8000-8002 | 3 | RS-38b | ||
| 8003 | 0 | RS-38b | was leased to New England Southern; sold 2025 | |
| 8004-8011 | 8 | RS-38b |