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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Train-to-Train Photography

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Train-to-train photography happens rarely. It's comparatively easy to photograph trackside scenes or equipment from the train, or trains...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

CN's Double Deck Auto Transporters

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CN's double-deck auto tranporter fleet comprised 150 cars with 9-foot end doors built by CC&F: 25 75-foot cars built in 1956 (CN 5...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

CN's Car-Go-Rail and Auto-With-You Services

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One of the most confusing HO scale cars ever produced was Bachmann's Auto Transporter in CN's black & white scheme. This was ...
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

October Sale

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Following Trackside Treasure's successful Summer Sale, here are some items you might consider adding to your railway collection: timeta...
Friday, September 30, 2011

A Tug on the Coupler

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A train trip always starts with a tug on the coupler. Sometimes almost imperceptible, sometimes not. The station platform starts to slide ...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Railfan Vehicles

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Do you live beside the tracks? If not, to go railfanning you need a railfan vehicle of some sort. Anything with two to four wheels will get ...
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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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