Trackside Treasure

Friday, August 31, 2018

Kingston Platform Tie Renewal, May 1995

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Tie replacement is normally done by large, mechanized track gangs with lots of track machines. What if the ties are in a tricky position ...
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Friday, August 24, 2018

Four More Days at Portage, August 1979

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To kick off Trackside Treasure's eleventh year, let's travel back thirty-nine years to the day (no less!) at Portage la Prairie, ...
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Saturday, August 18, 2018

CN's Hanley Spur, Layout Planning Snapshot

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What to leave in, what to leave out? Not only are these the lyrics of a Bob Seger song, they also pertain to model railway layout plann...
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Friday, August 10, 2018

Trackside Treasure's Tenth Anniversary

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So it's been ten years. Ten is normally the number at which we switch writing a number in letters to  numbers. It means you've be...
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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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