Trackside Treasure

Friday, December 9, 2016

Two 1-hour Projects - Gon Loads and Cement Car Weathering

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I attract Tyco bridges like a hamburger attracts toppings. I picked up so many at train shows that they are piling up at my Dominion Brid...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Black Friday in Belleville, November 2016

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Black Friday as a 'holiday tradition' is migrating north to Canada. To cash in on sales, Canadian retailers are adopting the post...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

The Dark and Seamy Side of Blogging

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I was surprised to receive an intimidating email from a fellow blogger this past Monday. A blogger with whom I've had an amiable onl...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Belleville TOFC ramp

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Someone asked recently about extant piggyback ramps. I knew there was one in Belleville, across from the VIA station. Since I've chri...
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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Lancaster & Chester Boxcars

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The Lancaster & Chester Railway , a 60-mile shortline, owned two fleets of boxcars - forty 50-footers built in 1979 , numbered 200-23...
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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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