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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

CP Angus Shops Vans

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CP 's Angus Shops turned out one 'Angus' van per day starting in 1970, at a cost of $40,000 each. All-steel welded construction...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Vestibule View of Saskatchewan, 1986

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Aboard VIA No 1 in May 1986, streaking across the Saskatchewan prairie on CP's Indian Head Sub, the sun pops over the horizon around Wo...
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

CN Buys UP

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Once in a great while, CN buys second-hand locomotives coming off lease from another Class 1. In this case Union Pacific-twice. Sixteen year...
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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,...
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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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