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Saturday, February 21, 2009

VIA's Winnipeg to Saskatoon Nos.109/110, 1982

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November 15, 1981 saw 15 VIA Rail routes cancelled, including the Halifax-Montreal Atlantic Limited, the Regina-Prince Albert RDC's Nos...
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Sunday, February 15, 2009

Centuries in the Snow at Belleville, February 1988

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A fresh snowfall on February 5, 1988 preceded my railfan trip to CN's Belleville yard. A westbound fast freight behind Centuries 2307-3...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

CP interchanges with CN at Kingston, 1979

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At the south end of CP Rail's Kingston Subdivision, running south from Tichborne to Kingston (ex-Kingston & Pembroke Railway, ofte...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009

CN Grain Boxcars

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CN had 11,000 dedicated grain boxcars in its car fleet in 1965, 6,178 in 1981 and 3,660 in 1985. GMD-1's 1012 -1067 are hauling 20 of th...
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Grain boxcar train consists, 1982

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Here are a couple of grain boxcar train consists from 1982, when the use of grain boxcars was beginning to decline: A westbound CP train of...
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Saturday, January 17, 2009

CP Grain Boxcars

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Boxcars were the freight car of choice for grain transportation from the early 1900's until they were replaced by gravity-discharge al...
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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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