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Monday, April 1, 2013

Five Fantastic Canadian Rail Mysteries

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Here are five Canadian railway mysteries I've come across in the form of photos that I'm unable to solve.  I'll present what ...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

CP Hospital Train - Service Cars

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CP's 1992 hospital train  moved a variety of obsolete locomotives west from Montreal. While these locomotives, including CPR 5468  we...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

CP Hospital Train - 5468 Continues West

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Separated from CP Rail's 1992 hospital train  on September 25 at White River, CPR 5468 was set out due to chronically overheating ax...
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Friday, March 8, 2013

CP Hospital Train, 1992

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On September 19, 1992 one of the most interesting trains operated by CP in the 1990's departed Montreal. A hospital train - a shepher...
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Friday, March 1, 2013

CN's Kingston Outer Station, Part 2

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Once the yard at CN's Kingston Outer Station was stub-ended and the Kingston Sub mainline was rerouted, as described in the previous ...
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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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