Trackside Treasure

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Triple Crown: Recent VIA, CN and CP

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Over the past month, I've experienced some time trackside with Canada's three largest railways. Fellow photographer Reg Aitken s...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Solitary Saskatchewan Elevators - Denny, Leach Siding and Ridpath

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It was 30 years ago. Disembarking from VIA Rail Canada’s Super Continental in Saskatoon, I began a Saskatchewan scavenger hunt photograph...
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

Vancouver Wharves Layout Corner Improvements

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My Vancouver Wharves HO scale layout is set in the Vancouver of the early 1970's featuring CP Rail switching operations from 'N...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

CN 'Flatside' boxcars

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CN acquired some former Conrail, ex-Penn Central boxcars that had a unique, not-quite-Canadian appearance. Their flat sides led me to du...
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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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