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Monday, December 26, 2016

Windmill train CN X307, December 2016

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On December 22, CN train X307 carried 50 turbine towers down CN's Kingston Sub. The windmills are manufactured in (what I thought was...
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Sunday, December 25, 2016

Christmas Card Collection 2016

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Festooned by festive greetings, my inbox is inundated. Here are some of the rail-related Christmas messages I've recently received fr...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

I'll Have VIA Blue Christmas 2016

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This year, I thought I'd come up with an always-original Trackside Treasure treatment of Elvis' Blue Christmas . Of course, when ...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

CN's Re-Doored Railboxes

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In 1985, CN acquired ex-Railbox Pullman-Standard 50-foot, 5277 cu.ft., 100-ton boxcars with 10-foot single sliding doors (RBOX 40750-4139...
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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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