Canadian National's 'Rent-A-Wreck' Era

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

HAYYYYYYY!!!! Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoyed a look back at some cool engines that CN leased. I don't think I've advertised it in a while but if you want, you can join the discord server! Make sure to share with your mom, your friends, your teacher, as i pledge to go railfanning oiled up at 10K subs! discord.gg/5eSSjn6WHQ

[@gloryannbatista6211]

Hey nice Mario kart WIIIII MUISC ALSO GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

[@Michrailfan]

Was not even baked out of my mind and still laughed like a hyena at engines of Amtrak. Best series ever fight me.

[@wrrail]

bro den done unlist the video 🙏🙏🙏

[@OrangeonGreenProductions]

As for the leasers in this video, I saw one CITX SD70M-2 trailing, a handful of ex CREX CN ES44ACS, three bluebirds and multiple Dash 8s

[@Henrytherailfan]

1:41 WEEZER🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣😃😃😃

[@YaLikeJazzEh]

I live near a CSX sub, and we have a CP Potash train that comes down every one in a while, ive heard talks of CN powering the potash train during the 2018s

[@Salou509]

This is a work of art. Keep up the good work!

[@rivitedrailfan]

It was an awesome year on the CN! I actually saw so many of the ex CSX C40-8Ws that I got bored of them. Until they disappeared, where I started to miss seeing them because they’d at least been different lol. What a great year to Railfan!

[@BNSFTrains10]

7:49 however as for CN 3974 it was spotted with a Conrail Graffiti Logo on the right side while the left side is none. and for 3972 it still has it's CITIRAIL Logo

[@AMRailfan11]

We had PRLX9555 stored on the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad for a handful of years before it was scrapped last year

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

WTF they scrapped all of them? Damnnnn lol

[@JadenGGvam]

We getting out the shops with this one 💯

[@EuropeanRailfan]

NS also had a lot of leased units in 2018

[@SPRailfan4449]

Not gonna lie I feel like the SD75m’s are my favorite diesel locomotive ever. I don’t know why they just are so interesting cause not many of them were made.

[@NorfolkAnd]

Hey I happened to see NS 3982, it's sitting in Altoona by the road I'm not sure if it's going to get scrapped or repainted but it's a cool sight to see

[@WildWildWeasel]

Lmao bowsette in the thumbnail 😂

[@CFRTrainSpotter]

god damn, i remember being 16 at the time and thinking she was the hottest thing out there...

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

LMAO same Down astronomically bad back then

[@warriorrealm9864]

Now NS is in their Rent a Wreck era

[@Txloganc]

yo what’s up with the anime thumbnail i thought i came for trains 😭 great vid doe

[@cocorailfanning6331]

Plrx 201 and 219 could be stored in fort smith arkansas. There is storage of plrx units there. But I can’t 100% confirm they are there

[@donhssm]

Yup. I remember them before I retired I 2019 in Hornepayne, Ont. Had a SD-70 Mac once still in demo scheme paint. Blue/silver/black # 8001. CN just put a "wet noodle" on the side. Nice unit. Leatherish seats. I liked the seats. CN took them out and installed fabric ones that just collect dust and if they get wet, GRRR! Had a UP unit trailing one day and it actually had windshield washer fluid.

[@503railfan]

The CITX SD70M-2s were all scrapped in 2023, along with CIT's SD60Ms, most of the CIT SD90MACs have also been scrapped at this point. I believe most if not all of the PRLX SD75s and SD70MACs have also been scrapped.

[@callumnichols7652]

I actually caught PRLX 219 and sister engine 200, along with PRLX 4002, an unknown GP40. This was back in March of 2021.

[@tueypjr4823]

All ex ATSF 75M's were killed. Edit: I legit saw CSX 7376 back in 2018 with fresh paint with patch out along with its sticker.

[@buccaneerrailfanning1776]

another banger vid

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

thank you Sgt. Pepper ! !

[@labradorite8760]

As someone born in Labrador city, I love the use of a Cartier ac44 at 6:17.

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

The mining roads up there are awesome! Like the QNS&L, Wabush Lake, Arnaud, etc

[@labradorite8760]

@@TheWinnipegRailfanwhen I lived up there I always had to catch a QNS&L ore train when I could. It was an amazing part of my childhood. My cabin was also around 100 feet from the QNS&L main line, so me and my father would walk along side the tracks and look at signals to see if anything was coming.

[@labradorite8760]

@@TheWinnipegRailfanmy father also works for Tacora owned Wabush mines.

[@bigiron2572]

Imagine if CN and CSX merged to compete against CPKC

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

CNSX lmfaoo

[@Trainboy9159]

utopia theme by todd rundgrens utopia :)

[@GTKCF2023]

ELGIN JOLIET AND EASTERN TAKEOVER

[@navinmcrazy1]

i like this

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

NAMCRAZY!!!!!!!!!!

[@molossis]

i lit saw like 3 CREX units in flint michigan on 3 trains, it was insane

[@ThePrairiesRailfan]

there a submissive bowser femgirl in the thumbnail… GOD… also I saw CP 7023 thru my school window leading and I wasn’t able to record it!!!! GODD… also very nice video and now I will disappear

[@kodachromerailroadvideos6571]

Nah, I've never been baked and I thought the parody series was funny as fuck

[@bipbipletucha]

Definitely agree it was fun to see the grey ex-leasers breaking up the monotony

[@Oliver_11_the_little_western]

8:17 oh the orange warbonnet gevo

[@therailfan5412]

Around 7:30, slight correction. Of the 125 CREX ES44ACs, CN bought 122. Of the 3 remaining, one had been scrapped prior and 2 had been sold to a company in Africa. I'll respond to myself after I look up specific numbers.

[@therailfan5412]

The units in question are CREX 1331 (scrap), CREX 1504, 1505. The latter 2 were sold to Arcelor in Liberia, and are lettered AMMC 1504 & 1505

[@Subbalarailfanning]

the 2 in africa derailed and were scrapped so CN owns all of them now

[@therailfan5412]

@@Subbalarailfanning oh sick lmao

[@Hopen111YT]

Epic

[@lennysvideoz]

I took a month trip with family up to the Toronto area around July-August 2018 (soon ventured out east to other regions as far as BC), and i saw some crazy ass shit on CN 😭😭😭 A fucking Blue Devil D9, CN M-2, and a GECX leaser. What the fuck?? 😂😂

[@CNRailfan.]

I remember seeing 7332 on the CN Holly Sub trailing on a CN train. I thought it was funny.

[@cac_deadlyrang]

2018 was the year Bluey aired, and also I think the TY the Tasmanian Tiger remaster was released.

[@Straight2_Offical]

This may be happening again, I've seen 3 HLCX leasers on CN trains.

[@wirtr]

You dont know how much I miss that decade that was the 2010s I saw tons of great things like CN 8952 before repaint with GECX 7383 and a UP dash 9, also yes nobody asked but idc, also they killed the leasers. Also the CITX SD70M-2s were stored in St. Louis, MO and were allegedly scrapped.

[@cameronmoss2933]

This is gonna be a super depressing comment, but I almost can’t even watch this, I railfanned the hell out of this time period just down in Va on NS trackage, a lot of old power was kicking around, lots of foreign power, was a ball as a 12-13 year old kid. Then the old power started to dwindle, after Covid I didn’t see any foreign power for 2-3 years I think and with NS streamlining their roster along with PSR it killed off tons of old power and it all just became a super bland time to railfan, I stuck it out until about 2021-2022. I haven’t been trackside since ‘22. My grandpa died that year and it really just killed it for me. All my footage pre-2020 got randomly wiped off my iPad so all of those memories are lost, so I’m left with a bunch of boring Gevo/AC44C6M led PSR 150+ car trains. I’ve been watching train content again recently and have thought about going trackside on a weekend I don’t have to race, but going to one of the spots me and my grandpa used to frequent and being alone with my thoughts just doesn’t seem fun only to be rewarded by a Gevo led intermodal. Idk why I’m even choosing a meme video to release a rant that has been pent up from 2022 but I don’t really feel like hitting backspace so yeah. Just a depressed ex-railfan here..

[@CentralCanadaRailfan]

GECX 9520!!!!

[@stuew6]

CITIRAIl unit were Bought back to CN new power but Not Repaint.

[@bub-e2592]

Railroads don't lease them anymore... Just Buying used Locomotives for their Rebuild projects, and maybe reactivating old ones from Storage as an Interim. (In the case of CSX)

[@SignalMan9292]

You could make a video about UP's SD70Ms though you could have already made one.

[@mamarussellthepie3995]

More UP SD70Ms then too 😮‍💨

[@am2261]

I thought/hoped some of the zebra stripes on their recently received rebuilds would break up the procession of mediocrity.... But no. 😕

[@MVF_2024-]

At least it was bowsett not a vapeora-

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

Did you know that va-

[@canadianbacon2205]

bros still using the 2018 og amtrak guy 365 intro

[@LMLRailfan]

And did the GECX ET44AC Gone from CN?

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

some went back but most are still on CN (re painted and re numbered)

[@therailfan5412]

​@@TheWinnipegRailfan CN bought all 12 they leased, have since repainted 8 into 31XX numbers. They still have 4 holes in the 31XX fleet for the remaining blueberries.

[@MrAsianPie]

Rent a wreck? Sounds like the adoption system

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

I want to adopt 7303 so baddd

[@Duck64906]

No wonder why the sd60f pulling UK locomotive

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

I'm pretty sure they were being delivered from the factory to the port of Halifax to be sent over

[@railroadhistoryarchives]

I miss trains

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

Me when the

[@Indianarailproductions]

The Roku background is crazy… wherd you get it..?

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

From My TV LMAOOOO (Jk it's on YT)

[@Indianarailproductions]

@@TheWinnipegRailfanoh

[@milepost26.69]

all of the CITX SD70M-2s were scrapped

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

damnnn RIP lol

[@johndeerefan725]

Wow, SD70M-2s aren't common to spot. I've heard NS brought their SD70M-2s back onto their fleet.

[@canadiantrainperson]

sd70mac's arent too rare on CN... I one caught a CN with an SD75I and a SD70ACE

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

I kinda meant the couple executive scheme MACs they leased lol

[@canadiantrainperson]

@@TheWinnipegRailfan Oh yeah those are pretty rare tbh I think theyre in storage somewhere... :(

[@CentralManitobaRailfan]

Leaser1!1!!11

[@orbitsrailfanvids]

Braw!

[@Ayden2008]

Bro loves PSR *your joking right?*

[@Csxfan2010.]

It's obvious sarcasm. You can tell by the sound of his voice.

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

i am dead serious, psr is so good!!! joking of course, lol

[@Ayden2008]

@@TheWinnipegRailfan PSR: Precision scheduling railroading More like: death of the railroads

[@MirasomeRailfan]

TWR (Tat Wat Rak)

[@TheWinnipegRailfan]

the winpig :)

[@ASILLYTRAINBOY2011]

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