Trackside Treasure

Thursday, January 31, 2019

The Flying Scotsman Visits Kingston, 1970

While on a North American tour, The London North Eastern Railway's Flying Scotsman arrived in Kingston on September 28, 1970, open to...

Friday, January 25, 2019

Wintertime at Mile 174, January 2019

On January 18, I managed to temporarily escape from a shopping junket to the north-end outlets in Kingston - Dalton Avenue near Highwa...

Thursday, January 17, 2019

VIA's Head End Power Program

As early as 1981, VIA had considered following Amtrak’s example of switching from steam heat for its passenger cars to electric heat. ...

Thursday, January 10, 2019

VIA cars stored at Ottawa

In October, 1993, several pieces of then-surplus VIA equipment were moved from Montreal to Ottawa: VIA 757, 1347, 5594, 5736, 5754, 965...

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Rather Sketchy Profile

Eric: 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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