Trackside Treasure

Friday, June 28, 2019

Canada Day 2019

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COMFORT  We recently had the rare pleasure of seeing significant swaths of Canada through the windows of a Skyline dome car on our Ki...
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Thursday, May 30, 2019

On Sabbatical

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I learned something today...that 'sabbatical' dates back to the Old Testament book of Leviticus, and is derived from the Hebrew ...
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Friday, May 24, 2019

CNA Port Hawkesbury boxcars

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A series of boxcars for the Port Hawkesbury (Point Tupper), Nova Scotia paper mill entered service in 1998. Spiffy when new!  CNA 406280-40...
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Friday, May 17, 2019

Springtime in Belleville, May 2019

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If you like a cool, wet spring, well, this is the one for you! No matter, when there are trains to watch and time to kill, power windows ...
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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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