Trackside Treasure

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Trackside Treasure Ninth Anniversary

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Canada's Sesquicentennial year 2017 has not brought with it the patriotic fervor and unbridled optimism that the 1967 Centennial year...
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Thursday, August 3, 2017

Kingston-Toronto Return Trip, July 2017 Pt 2

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In Part 1 of this trip to Toronto , I was under the trainshed at Toronto Union Station. Why? With some time on my hands, I had gone to th...
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Kingston-Toronto Return Trip, July 2017 Pt 1

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Wending my wearily waking way* to Toronto on July 21 aboard VIA No 651, I was ensconced in a CANADA 150 P42-led HEP2 consist. Breakfast ...
Saturday, July 22, 2017

ZCAX Covered Gondolas

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The Zinc Corporation of America operated a unique fleet of shorty gondola cars in the series ZCAX 89100-89183, rebuilt in 1976 by Midwest...
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Friday, July 14, 2017

Summertime at the Station, July 2017

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Still basking in the afterglow of CANADA 150 that was July 1 - the lineups and rain on Parliament Hill, the following festive fireworks, ...
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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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