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Friday, July 30, 2010

The Lilies of the Field

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Lilacs frame a brace of five MLW's: 4720-4724-4236-4500-4212 as they depart CP's yard in Smiths Falls, Ontario on May 20, 1991. Fore...
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Friday, July 23, 2010

Postscript: CN's Craik Subdivision

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CN's Craik Subdivision (see this previous post ) was often photographed by agricultural news photographers, probably because of its prox...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

CN's Craik Subdivision, 1986

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CN's Craik Subdivision runs 154 miles between Saskatchewan's two largest cities, Saskatoon and Regina. In 1979, the line hosted Rail...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Postscript: VIA's LRC Debut

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VIA Marketing publicized its new LRC trains by producing a bilingual illustrated pamphlet: d'un centre'ville a l'autre LRC from...
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Thursday, July 8, 2010

VIA's LRC Debut

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VIA Rail took delivery of its first LRC's at Montreal's Windsor Station twenty-nine years ago today, on July 7, 1981. By July 27, ...
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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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