Trackside Treasure

Monday, February 1, 2016

VIA Operation Axle: Consists

It would be nearly impossible to find photos showing the myriad consists operated by VIA during Operation Axle. As a way of graphica...

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

VIA Operation Axle: Photos

You'll likely find some photos of Operation Axle trains posted online. But one has to know what one is looking at, judge the era, the...

Thursday, January 21, 2016

VIA Operation Axle, March-June 1992

VIA No 62 arrives at Kingston on March 30, 1992 with 6413-15420-5584-3246-5448 (above). VIA No 63 arrives one hour later with 6425-15478-...

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Switching the Vancouver Wharves Layout

CP switcher crews confer - both of these switch jobs on my Vancouver Wharves HO scale layout use Proto S-3 locomotives and True Line Trai...

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Rather Sketchy Profile

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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