Trackside Treasure

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Postscript: Flexliner in VIA Service

VIA's Flexliner was a very photogenic little train during its time in Canada in 1996-1997 . I've taken this wintry opportunity to...

Friday, March 1, 2019

CP Switches Kingston's CN-CP Interchange, 1979

My Dad and I arrived at Queens CN-CP interchange on the morning of April 16, 1979 just in time to see CP's wayfreight from Smiths Fal...

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Harry Klassen starts out with the CPR

I've come to know Harry Klassen over the past year or two. It was one discussion some time ago that Harry mentioned working during hi...

Thursday, February 14, 2019

CP Wayfreight on Kingston's Hanley Spur in HO Scale

My HO-scale layout represents Kingston's Hanley Spur - a term I use to refer to CN and CP trackage on Kingston's waterfront . Kin...

Friday, February 8, 2019

Kingston's New Railfan Walking Trail

Lake to the left, tracks to the right. This is what I was faced with when I decided to venture out into the bright but windy winter weath...

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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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