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Friday, November 23, 2018

Postscript 2: VIA Nos 109/110 in 1982

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February 13, 1982 No 109 Eng CN 4120 at Brandon After reading my earlier posts on VIA Nos 109/110, Bill McGuire of Brandon kindly offer...
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Friday, November 16, 2018

Consider Consists

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I must admit - it never struck me that I shouldn't be writing down every car and locomotive number that I could when I started c...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Portage 1983, Part 2

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In 1983,my Mom and Dad travelled to Portage la Prairie in Part 1 of this series . On August 5, this eastbound CP freight led by four Geep...
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Friday, November 2, 2018

Winnipeg Whiplash and Manitoba Mishaps

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Rail-vehicle collisions, derailment and fires have made the pages of Winnipeg newspapers over the years.  Being a railway city, it's ...
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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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