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Thursday, August 28, 2014

New Spur at Kingston DuPont, 2001

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These days, it seems industries are eschewing rail service in favour of truck transport. However, there are some plants that not only con...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Summertime at Joyceville, August 2014

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Pastoral. Bucolic. Idyllic. Thundering trains! Words not normally heard together but entirely appropriate as I stationed myself alongside...
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Friday, August 15, 2014

Canada's Most Scenic Trainwatching Spot?

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Where is Canada's Most Scenic location to watch trains? Not necessarily the most tains, or the best trains, but the most photogenic...
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Postscript: Sixth Anniversary Contest

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Fiendishly, devilishly challenging. That's what this year's Trackside Treasure sixth anniversary contest proved to be. By connect...
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Friday, August 8, 2014

Trackside Treasure's Sixth Anniversary

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Once again, Trackside Treasure traces its roots to an August day in 2008 when this cyberspace-based cornucpia of Canadian railway informa...
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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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