Trackside Treasure

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Pop-up Post: Four Days in September 2025, Freight Cars

Coke can CN(WX) 111289 on CN No 368 In my four fore-posted Four Days in September pop-up posts I profiled the prolific plethora of passeng...

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Pop-up Post: Four Days in September 2025, Day Four

Although recently reliving and rail-ly enjoying my Real Rails 2025 retrospective, it's now time to turn trackside taking up the trail a...

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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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