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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Postscript: Kingston Derailment August 1986

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Here's a different perspective on the August 26, 1986 derailment, as written in the BRS Branchline, January 1987 edition, by Rolland O. ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Thunder Bay and Sudbury, Ontario September-October 1985

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I departed Regina on September 29, 1985 on VIA No 2 heading east, and arrived in Thunder Bay for a stop-over. There was a derailment of 35 c...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Kingston, Ontario August-September 1986

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                  Local newspaper Kingston This Week covered the derailment in its August 27 edition: ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Welcome

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Welcome to Trackside Treasure. As always, we are left to ask "Why?" Why did Eric start a blog? What do I have to contribute to the...
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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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