Friday, September 26, 2008

Manitoba's grain elevators glide by VIA's Canadian, 1980

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Comfortably seated in the Skyline dome, enjoying a Toronto-Vancouver trip aboard VIA's Canadian in 1980, it was easy to see wooden grain...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

CN Train No 805 on the Rivers Sub, June 1978

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Forty-foot grain boxcars were used to ship western Canada's grain, even after the advent of 100-ton cylindrical covered hopper cars. The...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

UCRS Toronto to Gravenhurst behind 6060 September 29, 1979

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CN's restored 4-8-2 6060 was a fantrip favourite. Occasionally, I saw it run light over the Kingston Sub between Montreal and Toronto, t...
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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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