Trackside Treasure

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Trackside Treasure's Seventeenth Anniversary

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Admittedly, 17 is a rather obscure number to celebrate. It is a prime number, indivisible by any other numbers. Also admittedly, the number ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2025

VIA Ventures in Service, Part 4

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Back in January, 2024 and with the delivery of the twelfth Siemens Venture set, I split my original Siemens Venture post first published on ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2025

Pop-up Post: One Day in July 2025, Freight Cars

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After a day trackside in the Greater Napanee area , I realized I had a greater number of photos than would fit in one post. A redundancy of ...
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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Venture Trainset Implementation Dates

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This was an enjoyable project to work on today. Who doesn't like a spreadsheet full of dates and numbers?  With an infusion of VIA Rail ...
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Friday, August 1, 2025

Pop-up Post: One Day in July 2025

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Another online craft event for my wife on a Saturday - July 26, 2025 - meant that I would be heading trackside. Given the gift of several ho...
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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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