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Friday, August 26, 2011

Then and Now: Bayview Junction 1981-2011

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Retired RTC Tim Ball (TJB) travelled to Bayview Junction near Hamilton, Ontario in July and was kind enough to share some of his photos. I...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

New Belleville VIA Station

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VIA's operations in the Montreal-Toronto are getting a huge boost due to several projects underway along CN's Kingston Sub. One of t...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Postscript: Trackside Treasure Third Anniversary

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We have a winner! And how it happened is a really interesting story. Congratulations to Bryan Fulsom who guessed all five station photos ...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Trackside Treasure Third Anniversary

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Three years ago I looked ahead, as through a scratched Skyline window, and decided to begin this blog as a way of sharing information and p...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Bee Hive Corn Syrup Tank Cars

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St. Lawrence Starch Co. of Port Credit owned a small fleet of eight distinctive tank cars. Don McQueen's photo of SLAX 5024 at Alland...
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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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