Trackside Treasure

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

The Report that Hatched Buffer Cars

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VIA's implementation of buffer cars on its its consist equipped with HEP1/HEP2 stainless steel cars occurred rapidly in mid-October. In ...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Invista Outbound Cars & Derailment

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In 2016, Kingston's Invista (formerly DuPont) plant began shipping an outbound product produced at the nylon plant. The plant's trad...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Manitoba Western Railway Layout, 1984

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Let's take a trip back to 1984, to the basement of our family home - the home of the Manitoba Western Railway. Initially designed by my ...
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Thursday, November 10, 2022

Buffer Cars in the News

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On November 9, reporter for the Quebec media newspaper network  Le Soleil Gilles Gagne published this article . I was pleased to collaborate...
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Monday, November 7, 2022

Testing VIA's HEP Fleet

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After a flurry of activity at VIA Rail, and the  addition of buffer cars  to HEP1 and HEP2 consists, intended to reduce energy transfer to o...
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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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