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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

CN's Blind Mice F-Units

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Some of CN's 9100-series GFA-17's were rebuilt to GFB-17's numbered 9100-9108 between May 1983 and December 1984. These were fo...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

VIA Rail's CANADA 150 Wraps

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Ever since VIA Rail Canada wrapped P42 916, the first locomotive in the CANADA 150 scheme, there has been a lot of chatter about this wra...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

New VIA Rail Book: Pre-Publication Post

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My fourth book on VIA Rail is now ready for my graphic designer. I'm pumped, proud and pooped now that I've written and edited te...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Pop-up Post: CN Nos 368/372, February 2017

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Former Sultran bathtubs OFOX 1009-3354 During a railfan trip to Belleville on February 11 , CN No 368 at 0920 and CN No 372 at 1015 had...
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Sunday, February 12, 2017

Winter in Belleville, February 2017

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A mid-winter trip to the Belleville area today was action-packed. Upon arrival along Airport Parkway, CN 2229 was spooling up to drag a l...
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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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