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Showing posts with label derailments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label derailments. Show all posts
Friday, November 17, 2023

Postscript: CN Nos 318 and 45 Collide at Ernestown - December 20, 1974

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In this postscript to my initial post , I'll be profiling the derailment clean-up, the state of the wrecked equipment and a brief epilog...
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Friday, November 10, 2023

CN Nos 318 and 45 Collide at Ernestown - December 20, 1974

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On a clear and cold winter's night just before Christmas in December, 1974 an eastbound CN freight collided with a westbound CN passenge...
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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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