Trackside Treasure

Friday, August 7, 2015

Postscript: Trackside Treasure Seventh Anniversary

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The entries are in, and have been opened, tallied, mulled, mulled some more, meditated on, and without any further procrastination on my ...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Trackside Treasure Seventh Anniversary

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What is it about anniversaries? After all, each day follows another in a serial sunrise-sunset sequence. Anniversaries are significant to...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

110 Minutes at Union Station, July 2015

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I arrived in Toronto on VIA No 651 on July 9, and at the end of the day I had some spare time. Checking in at the Business Class lounge i...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Kingston-Toronto Return Trip, July 2015

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Just like a year ago , I headed to Toronto on July 9 aboard VIA No 651. Morning coffee is now $2.25 and the new paper timetable came in h...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Outdoor Layout: The LBM&SBGW RR

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Back in the 1920s, two pasta-industry magnates controlled a major part of the North American pasta market. L. Beau McAroney and S. B...
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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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