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Sunday, April 26, 2009

CP's Colonsay Subdivision, 1986

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CP's Colonsay Subdivision in Saskatchewan catches one's eye on a map due to its distinctively-named towns. Located almost dead-cent...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

CN's Cataraqui Spur, from Mainline to Lakeshore

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Branching off CN's Kingston Subdivision at Mi 178, the Cataraqui Spur extends 3 miles south to Lake Ontario. It serves the Invista (form...
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Saturday, April 4, 2009

CP's Loose Caboose

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Heading west in the vestibule aboard VIA No 1 in 1985, we passed a somewhat unique CP van, the "loose caboose" in Niblock siding. ...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

VIA's Vestibule View heading west to Winnipeg, 1985

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A brilliantly sunlit September afternoon, and an open Dutch door in coach 126 made a great combination on board VIA No 1, the Canadian, trav...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

BNML 2 and the Midland Railway of Manitoba

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BNSF 1685, the last high-hood, first-generation Geep in service with a North American Class I railway has gone stateside. Formerly Burlingt...
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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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