Trackside Treasure

Monday, May 27, 2013

Portage la Prairie Layout Trackplans

The eight steps of Portage la Prairie layout planning have led us to...the trackplan. In 1986, CN 9627-5135 led lumber empties west at ...

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Portage la Prairie Layout Planning

Portage la Prairie, Manitoba is one of Canada's best railfan locations. CN, CP and VIA trains funnel through Portage, travelling betw...

Monday, May 13, 2013

FC+NC+NS=SC

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was our sunny spring vacation destination. Railfanning was not the reason for the trip, but that doesn't...

Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Company Photographer Returns

You might recall that the Company Photographer paid Trackside Treasure a visit back in February . He's set up his tripod in a variety...

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Rather Sketchy Profile

Eric: 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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