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Saturday, December 27, 2008

New Year's Greetings

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This is undoubtedly a season of peace and goodwill, which pervades our greetings to each other in our daily activities. On the street, in s...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

Railroaders and the Rules of the Road

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Not only is railway work hazardous, round-the-clock-and unpredictable, it's also subject to the adherence to numbers books of rules suc...
Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Christmas Consists 1976-1985

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Elvis sang "I'll have a blue Christmas..." How about a VIA blue-and-yellow Christmas? Bing Crosby sang "I'm dreaming ...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Postscript: CN and VIA's Winnipeg to Churchill Trains

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Looking for more Churchill train photos, I found several of Thompson to Winnipeg Train No 90, at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Here's on...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

CN and VIA's Winnipeg to Churchill trains

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The passenger trains operated by CN then VIA, between Winnipeg and Churchill have always been interesting due to the variety of head-end tra...
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Friday, November 14, 2008

Cabooseless Operations Display Train, November 1984

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Cabooseless train operations, like many developments in railroading, were adopted in the U.S. many years before Canada. This photo of a Conr...
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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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