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Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Northlander at Washago

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Ontario Northland 's Northlander departs Toronto Union Station six days a week, heading north on an eleven hour schedule to Cochrane. O...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Covered Hopper Train of Thought

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Aluminum covered hoppers are now being scrapped. Excess car supply means that these cars are stored on out-or-the-way spurs, and this costs...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Two Afternoons at Ernestown, 1985

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Ernestown, Ontario is not one of Canada's trainwatching hotspots. It barely rates a map dot, yet hosts the only set of mainline crossov...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Postscript: Portage's UGG Grain Elevators

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In June, 1984 CP 6021-5995 lead a 70-car grain train eastward into Portage la Prairie from CP's Minnedosa Sub. Featured in the initial p...
Friday, December 3, 2010

Portage la Prairie's UGG Grain Elevators

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United Grain Growers opened their state-of-the-art high-throughput grain elevator at Dundonald, Manitoba at Mi 14 of CP's Minnedosa Sub...
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Cars on CN's Millhaven Spur

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CN's Millhaven Spur has long been an industry receiving covered hoppers and tank cars from the Kingston Sub. This post contains car 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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