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Sunday, April 24, 2011

The Royal Train, September 1984

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To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Loyalist settlement in Ontario, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edin...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Postscript: CN and CP Rescue Units

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Turns out Trackside Treasure readers don't just like rescue units hauling VIA trains, they like extreme rescue units, the more incongruo...
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Friday, April 8, 2011

CN & CP Freight Locomotives Rescue VIA

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VIA trains operating on CN and CP lines occasionally encountered mechanical difficulties. In such cases, assistance from the host railwa...
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Friday, April 1, 2011

CN Steam Freight

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Twenty-five years after the age of steam, rising energy prices led to a re-examination of the use of steam by CN management. Specifically, t...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

CN Continuous Welded Rail Train

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The lifting of Queens track one last weekend gave me the opportunity to photograph some of CN's Continuous Welded Rail (CWR) cars. I h...
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Lifting Track One at Queens

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CN's Kingston Subdivision mainline between Montreal and Toronto is double-tracked with right-hand running. At many locations, crossover...
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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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