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Saturday, August 25, 2012

CR-GTW-DWP-NS Locomotives on CN 1994-1998

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In addition to leasing several fleets of locomotives from leasing companies in the mid- to late-1990's, CN also borrowed power fro...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Symington Yard Incidents

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I posted Symington Yard Part 1  and Symington Yard Part 2  in January 2011.  In February, I received an unexpected and hauntingly crypt...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Postscript: Fourth Anniversary Contest

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And we have a winner! Congratulations to Jakob Mueller, the winner of Trackside Treasure's fourth anniversary contest.  He will soon ...
Friday, August 3, 2012

Trackside Treasure Fourth Anniversary

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Four years ago, I fired up the scanner, dug out some photos and notes, and set up a tiny corner office in the cyberspace skyscraper. I ca...
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

CN North America Paint Scheme

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CN introduced its 'CN North America' paint scheme in mid-1992.  Intended to trumpet CN's continental reach, by way of its Ala...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Then and Now: Domes on the Kingston Sub 1981-2012

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VIA Budd stainless steel equipment returned to CN's Kingston Sub for one day, heading west from Montreal on July 16.  A five-car HEP ...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Still Springtime in Shannonville

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A late spring trip to Shannonville on June 16 took me trackside at the site of the CP crossing over the CN Kingston Sub, just west of Sha...
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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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