Trackside Treasure

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Kingston Invista Adds a New Track

Kingston's Invista nylon plant, located at the south end of CN's Cataraqui Spur , used to unload tank cars of hexamethylenediamin...

Monday, November 25, 2019

Brockville Rail-Served Industries

Paul Charland labelled an aerial photo of Brockville to show CP-served industries. This was initially posted to Facebook, with conside...

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

VIA Trains on the Kingston Sub, 1986-1995

VIA 6787 at Markham Road, Scarborough June 8, 1986 A fellow VIAphile kindly shared these views with me. And now I'm sharing them wi...

Monday, November 11, 2019

Autumn at the Station, November 2019

A gloomy but snow-free early November got me trackside to further record the transition from VIA 40 Years/Ans (F) wraps to 'love the ...

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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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