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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Christmas on the Cataraqui Spur

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Pre-Christmas vacation gave me a chance to photograph CN No 518 working Kingston's Cataraqui Spur. Normally, this train has operated ...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

Boxcars at Kingston's CP Express

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CP Express operated a terminal off Dalton Avenue near Division Street in Kingston, one of the last CP-served industries in Kingston . T...
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Friday, December 19, 2014

VIA trains 111 and 112, December 1980

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VIA's September 29, 1980 timetable (Hello, ladies!) included a centre supplement with something new: the first time a train to Halifa...
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Friday, December 12, 2014

Thunder Bay 1979, Part 1

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In April 1979, we made a school trip to deepest, darkest Thunder Bay, Ontario. We made known to our billets that we were interested in se...
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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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