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Friday, October 7, 2022

Summertime at Smiths Falls, August 1983

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A yearning to see CP put me on the road to Smiths Falls on August 3, 1983. My parents were travelling to  Manitoba aboard VIA Rail , the onl...
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Thursday, September 29, 2022

My New Yashica Camera, 1984

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On April 23, 1984 my brother Dave and I walked into our local photography shop, Camera Kingston. I walked out with a brand-new Yashica FX-3 ...
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Friday, September 23, 2022

The Wreck the Day Before the Turbo Wreck

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December 10, 1968 was a momentous date in the history of press photography, Kingston history and Canadian railway technology. On that day. t...
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Friday, September 16, 2022

Industry Profile: DuPont's Whitby Facility

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The DuPont of Canada polyethylene film facility in Whitby was built in 1958 at 201 South Blair Street. Served by CN, the facility always cau...
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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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