Trackside Treasure

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Railfan, Jim Boyd and Me

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While reading through recent issues of Railfan & Railroad (I still refer to it by the magazine's original title Railfan ), I rea...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Freight Train Haiku

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CN No 308 engines 2297-8845 Recently, while doing some fair-weather railfanning with a cup of coffee at our nearby McDonald's, I to...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

CP's Carberry Subdivision east of Portage

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CP's Carberry Subdivision between east of Portage la Prairie was a double-tracked line, funnelling the northerly Minnedosa Sub and ...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

CN's Montreal-Toronto RoadRailers

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CN launched a Montreal-Toronto truck/train freight service in September 1999 to in the wake of the Ecorail experiment.  Departing weeknights...
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Saturday, April 7, 2012

CN's Ecorail

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Ecorail was a RoadRailer-like technology developed in Quebec for use on light-density branchlines.  An early version of 'distributed ...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Spring Cleaning Sale

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Spring cleaning means a clean sweep of my collection for the following twenty-four items.  Perhaps you'll find some springtime read...
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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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