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Friday, October 29, 2021

Spadina Roundhouse, June 1980

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During my short morning layover before heading west on VIA's Super Continental on June 12, 1980, I walked over from Toronto Union Statio...
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Friday, October 22, 2021

Kingston-Portage Aboard VIA - June 1980, Part 2

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Having travelled west aboard VIA No 3 , my trip home to Kingston on June 22 started bright and early! Boarding an eight minute-late VIA No 4...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Kingston-Portage Aboard VIA - June, 1980 Part 1

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In June, 1980 was it an alien concept to send a 16 year-old halfway across the country on his own? What could possibly go wrong? It was Poin...
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Friday, October 8, 2021

CN-CP Connection at Smiths Falls

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CN's Smiths Falls Subdivision from Ottawa to Napanee made a unique crossing under CP tracks at Smiths Falls. These photos taken in Augus...
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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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