Trackside Treasure

Friday, May 28, 2021

Gardiners Road Underpass Project

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One of the most notorious traffic snarls in Kingston's west end was Gardiners Road. Crossing the double-track CN mainline at Mi. 178.0 K...
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Friday, May 21, 2021

CBC's The National Dream, 1974

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AN EIGHT-PART SERIES  Long before Schitt's Creek*, Workin' Moms or Little Mosque on the Prairie, Canada's national broadcaster, ...
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Saturday, May 15, 2021

VIA 1405 Derails at Illecillewaet

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This dramatic derailment has been a mystery to me for quite awhile. I'd first seen a photo in TRAINS magazine, and this uncredited view ...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Kingston-Portage aboard VIA, 1982 - Part 2

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Portage railfanning that year did not include the one-two of the westbound Canadian and Super Continental each afternoon as in the year bef...
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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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