Trackside Treasure

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Industry profile: Afgritech Watertown NY

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Looking for a unique industry for your model railway? Forget the time-worn standards: the corner scrap yard that can load only one car, t...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Thunder Bay (and Cochrane) 1979, Part 2

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During our 1979 Thunder Bay visit - Part 1 and itinerary here , we visited a terminal grain elevator at the harbour. The view toward the ...
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Saturday, January 24, 2015

The internet beckons brightly...

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   I don't usually publish a post every time someone that I know joins Twitter or Facebook. Happens all the time, right? How about a ...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

VIA's Canadian at Portage, 1981

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After publishing a post on the Super Continental at Portage la Prairie in 1981 , it only seemed right to give equal coverage to the Canad...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

VIA's Super Continental at Portage, 1981

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VIA's Super Continental ran until the November 1981 Pepin cuts to VIA. Westbound VIA train No 3 was scheduled to stop in Portage la P...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

CN's VI&E Covered Hoppers

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In 1967, Vancouver Iron & Engineering * built one hundred steel covered hoppers for CN at its False Creek site . The covered hoppers,...
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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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