Trackside Treasure

Saturday, February 27, 2010

CN Cabooses

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Canadian National rostered over 700 steel cabooses. Featuring modern conveniences like electricity from axle-driven generators, improved se...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Postscript: Kingston Derailment March 1980

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Here is the first indication of the derailment - the delayed trains that will be held until at least one track is clear. The steam-heated Ca...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Derailment at Kingston, March 1980

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The derailment of an eastbound freight on CN's Kingston Sub on March 15, 1980 blocked both mainline tracks. At 0345, a broken drawbar ...
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Vancouver Wharves Layout

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Have you ever picked up an HO-scale model railway layout and transported it 1500 miles? That's what it felt like when I made the decisio...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

VIA Corridor Consists 1976-1981

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VIA inherited CN's passenger equipment for use in the Corridor. Consists were virtually unchanged from the CN era, including baggage car...
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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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