Trackside Treasure

Sunday, March 29, 2020

The Ghostest with the Mostest

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In the mid-summer of 1980, VIA experimented with a silver (grey, aluminum, platinum mist - take your pick. I'm no Martha Stewart) and...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Cataraqui Spur Derailment - March 25, 2020

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Again today, CN No 518 derailed on CN's Cataraqui Spur heading to the lakefront Invista nylon plant here in Kingston. Every three ...
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Friday, March 20, 2020

Model Railroading during a Pandemic

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A week ago, I was seasonally sequestered at a cabin reading about railroading. Wednesday into Thursday, the COVID-19 pandemic got real a...
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Saturday, March 14, 2020

Reflections on Railway Reading during a Pandemic

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This particular post comes at an interesting juncture, junction and juxtaposition of several things: Spare time - six Saturdays and a ...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Cataraqui Spur Derailment - March 4, 2020

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CN's Belleville-Kingston turn No 518 derailed several cars, partly or fully, upright, on a tilt or fully horizontal on and just south...
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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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