Trackside Treasure

Friday, August 21, 2009

Winnipeg Union Station layover railfanning

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From 1979 until 1981, VIA's Canadian and Super Continental operated through Winnipeg and made some long layovers ranging from one to fo...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Trackside Treasure First Anniversary

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One year ago I started blogging Trackside Treasure for three reasons. One, it sounded simple. Even with minimal programming skills, each pos...
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Postscript: CN Business Cars

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Following up from an initial post on CN's business car fleet , how about CN business cars pulled by Illinois Central E-units? June 2, 20...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

CN Business Cars

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CN operated a number of business cars for various company uses: track geometry and evaluation, rules instruction, entertaining shippers, and...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Switching Winnipeg's St James Industrial Park

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CN SW-8 7183 kicks cars in an industry support yard, with Winnipeg's skyline in the background. The little switcher is gathering the car...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Oil Trains and TankTrains to CN's Bath Spur

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CN's Kingston Sub has been a steel-wheeled pipeline to Ontario Hydro's oil-fired Lennox Generating Station (LGS) since it opened in ...
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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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