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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Wrapping up 2017 at the Station

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It was so cold that I'd plugged in the cat, and brought in the car. The brass monkey had been brought inside. The cold was putting ...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Kott Lumber Derailment

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June 21, 1984 :  The switch to the Kott Lumber spur at Mi 8.1 of CN's Smiths Falls Sub on Moodie Drive in Nepean was left open, with...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Merry Christmas 2017

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Well, it's that time of year, Christmas time is here, Snowy scenes and festive themes And airhorns in the air. For some reaso...
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Friday, December 15, 2017

Kingston-Toronto Return Trip, December 2017

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This past week was NOT my first trip to Toronto aboard VIA Rail. So what made it different from the others? Well, there were a few diffe...
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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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