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Saturday, February 25, 2012

CN's Oakland Subdivision

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Running north from Delta Junction off CN's Gladstone Sub at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, CN's Oakland Subdivision ran north, wes...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Coach yard switchers

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Coach yard switchers assemble individual passenger cars into lightning-fast limiteds and streaking streamliners.  In the same way, freight y...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Postscript: Leased Locomotives on CN 1994-1998

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Here's a listing of leased-power consists that I observed in addition to those in the previous post .  All locomotives CN unless otherwi...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Leased Locomotives on CN 1994-1998

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In the mid- to late-1990's, both CN and CP were power-hungry, at times leasing hundreds of locomotives from leasing companies and oth...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Railfanning Regina

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Railfanning Regina, Saskatchewan is not something I have a lot of experience doing.  In fact, I've railfanned Regina three times in thir...
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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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