Trackside Treasure

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

What Do People Do All Day?

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One of my favourite books to pore over in my younger years was Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day?  Detailed, humorous illust...
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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Born to Fly! The Union Pearson Express

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On October 29, VIA No 651 took me to Toronto under leaden, overcast autumn skies. Our consist was 906-4005-4109-4105-4111. The sun only b...
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Monday, November 2, 2015

Kingston-Toronto in Business Class, November 2015

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Scenes from a train...aboard VIA Business Class on November 1, 2015. There was precious little sunshine this afternoon aboard VIA No 65, ...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

PHLX Covered Hoppers

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About a year ago, some very new, very clean, very un-graffiti'd covered hoppers made an appearance on CN's Kingston Sub. Carrying...
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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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