Trackside Treasure

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Canada Day: Canada by Train

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As homage to our great nation, here are some photos taken from aboard the train and along the line. Each picture is accompanied by a few o...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

VIA Roomette Interiors

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Ever tried to photograph the inside of a roomette? It's a lot easier to photograph outside, since the VIA roomettes are near the vestib...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

CN & CP serve Portage la Prairie's Manitoba Pool 'B' grain elevator

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The Manitoba Pool 'B' grain elevator in Portage la Prairie (middle above) was a single elevator served by two railways, CN and CP. ...
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Saturday, May 16, 2009

CN's Cataraqui Spur, Part 2

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CN's Cataraqui Spur continues (see Part 1 here )heading south from Bath Road, through conservation area wetlands. Snowplow service-equ...
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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Springtime in Shannonville

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Trackside treasure...today. A sunny spring day in Shannonville, Ontario just east of Belleville, where CN's Kingston Sub and CP's B...
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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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