Trackside Treasure

Friday, August 28, 2026

POSTSCRIPT: EIGHTEENTH ANNIVERSARY CONTEST

Thanks to all those who participated in this year's Eighteenth Anniversary Contest. This year there were three ways to win, all related...

Friday, August 21, 2026

TRACKSIDE TREASURE'S EIGHTEENTH ANNIVERSARY

In many countries, 18 is recognized as the year that we enter adulthood. It's the number of holes on a standard golf course. Kingston...

Friday, August 14, 2026

THE LATER LIFE OF VIA 9301

An interesting email introduced itself into my information-inundated inbox at the very end of 2025, from Hamilton's Don MacVicar . The ...

Friday, August 7, 2026

DIET PEPSI TASTE DRIVE TRAIN, 1990

A collaboration of Diet Pepsi, the Canadian music video TV channel MuchMusic and VIA Rail resulted in the Diet Pepsi Taste Drive train rolli...

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Rather Sketchy Profile

Eric: Eric Gagnon was born in Montreal, Quebec and has lived in Kingston, Ontario most of his life. Much time was spent trackside when not in school, college or practising as a medical laboratory technologist. Married with two children, Eric is also an HO-scale modeller, musician, avid reader and blogger, having launched his Canadian railfan blog Trackside Treasure in 2008. Eric's first book Trackside with VIA:The First 35 Years, published in 2011, was followed by two more in 2012: Trackside with VIA:Cross-Canada Compendium and Consist Companion. In 2017, Eric published his fourth book, Trackside with VIA - Research & Recollections, followed by his two-volume Trains & Grains series in June, 2018, then two books on Kingston's waterfront history - Smoke on the Waterfront in November 2020, and Stories on the Waterfront in August, 2021.

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