Trackside Treasure

Thursday, July 25, 2019

An Afternoon at Portage la Prairie, 1981

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My first trainwatching day of my 1981 trip to Portage was August 24. Arriving in Winnipeg 45 minutes late, my aunt met the train at the s...
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Friday, July 19, 2019

The Winnipeg Sleeper Swap

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Some of VIA's operations required switching en route. Switching operations at Winnipeg were of special interest during VIA's e...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Riding VIA's Canadian, June 2019

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It's a rare treat to travel on VIA's ex-CP Canadian. Even non-enthusiasts marvel at the enduring nature of Budd's 1950's ...
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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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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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