Trackside Treasure

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Rutland's Howe Scale Co. Building

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Even before I decided to model Vermont, one signature scene that just had to be  included was this view taken from the State Street overp...
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Saturday, December 2, 2017

Kingston-Portage la Prairie aboard VIA, 1981

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On August 22, 1981 I departed Kingston aboard the morning RDC run to Toronto to begin a trip to Portage la Prairie, MB to visit relat...
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Friday, November 24, 2017

Sask Pool in Stranraer, Part 2

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In Part 1 , I rolled up on the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator in Stranraer. The elevator agent kindly gave the run of the place! Havi...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Sask Pool in Stranraer, Part 1

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While driving the backroads of Saskatchewan in 1986, I decided I would drop in to an elevator. It occurred to me at the time that these w...
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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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