Trackside Treasure

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

CN No 369 and CN No 376, December 2015

CN train No 369 happened by my local Shoppers Drug Mart parking lot on Saturday, December 12 at 1235. Led by CN 3019 which was followed ...

Friday, December 25, 2015

Kingston-Dorval aboard CN, 1976

In my shoebox collection of notepads containing train numbers, the very first notepad is written in young-person scrawl. The notes are from...

Sunday, December 20, 2015

CRO: Chestnuts Roasting On

Sung to the tune of... Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire: Trackside Treasure and an open fire, Laptop balanced on my knee, Nice w...

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

VIA's Canadian at Kingston, June-July 1982

From 1981 to 1985, VIA's Canadian operated between Toronto and Montreal over CN's Kingston Sub. My Dad's Kodak 126 Instamatic...

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Eric: 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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