Trackside Treasure

Friday, April 30, 2010

Springtime at Mile 179

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Spring is here in the form of a bright, cloudless morning. My son says "Dad, if you're going trainwatching in the morning, you can ...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

A day at Kingston, November 1985

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November 25, 1985: A cold but sunny day, ideal for railfanning in the vicinity of Kingston's VIA station. At 0941, 6919-3474-3313-3396,...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Postscript: Alberta and Saskatchewan Cylindrical Grain Cars

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The Alberta and Saskatchewan governments made sure their citizens, specifically farmers, knew that their tax dollars were being invested to ...
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Canada's Cylindrical Grain Cars

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Cylindrical grain cars are one of Canada's best-known contributions to the North American railcar network. Over 19,000 government cover...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Tim Time: RTC TJB signs off

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CN Rail Traffic Controller TJ Ball spent the evening of March 3 controlling train movements over the Kingston Sub. Tim's authoritative, ...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Vestibule View of Thunder Bay, 1986

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The vestibule of Sherwood Manor aboard VIA No 1 offered a great view of CN and CP operations in Thunder Bay. I was heading to SteamExpo, a ...
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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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