Trackside Treasure

Friday, July 2, 2021

The Confederation Train visits Kingston

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  In 1967, Canada celebrated its Centennial of Confederation, and hosted Expo 67 in Montreal. CN and CP were corporate exhibitors at Montr...
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Monday, June 28, 2021

Canada Day 2021

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Craigellachie cairn It's time to once again mark our national day*, Canada Day. Here are three excerpts from articles on Canada's re...
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Friday, June 18, 2021

2021 Front Patio Layout: Lyttle-Redd Caboose Co.

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Each summer I enjoy having a sit on my front porch, step or patio or stoop. (Actually, I only stoop when I'm having a nap out there.) Th...
Friday, June 11, 2021

Spent Pot-Lining COFC

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It's hard to miss these half-height containers on flat cars (COFC) that travel in cuts of one to five on CN Kingston Sub freights. I not...
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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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