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Monday, November 16, 2009

West Tower Portage la Prairie, Manitoba June, 1980

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West Tower is a CN-CP interlocking located on the west side of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Double-tracked CN Rivers Sub and double-tracked...
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Friday, November 6, 2009

VIA Corridor Consists 1996-2000

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Between 1996 and 2000, VIA Corridor consists were no longer steam-heated. The transition from steam generators to HEP (Head-End Power) rend...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

CN Ballast Trains, Part 1

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During the summer track maintenance season, CN operates ballast trains to distribute ballast along specific sections of trackage. These trai...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

VIA Corridor Consists 2001-2009

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VIA train consists in the Quebec City-Windsor corridor represent equipment types seen on other intercity trains, and to some extent longer-d...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Hotbox Detectors

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When the distance between railway employees started to exceed the distance an axle takes to turn into a hotbox, it was time for Canada's...
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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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