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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Two Days at Portage, 1985

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On Monday, September 16, 1985 I left Montreal aboard VIA No 1, arriving at Winnipeg on the evening of September 17. During servicing, I was ...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

"What is Happening with VIA's New Venture Trains?" Seven Months after CN Imposed its Crossing Speed Reductions

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It's been seven months but it feels like seven years. To say it's become somewhat of a Trackside Treasurobsession covering the imple...
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Friday, May 16, 2025

VIA's Kool-Aid Contest, Summer 2000

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A Kool-Aid contest in March 2000 led to 6404, 6405, 6406, 6411, 6424, 6432, 6433, 6439, 6453 and 6454 wearing a colourful livery, for a few ...
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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Pop-up Post: Two Days in March 2025, Freight Cars

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For the second time in two months, an online crafting event for my wife meant an anticipated three days trackside: March 21-23, 2025. My goa...
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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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