Trackside Treasure

Thursday, January 25, 2024

TriVIA

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We often discuss then dismiss trivia as being, well, trivial. Not worth our time. Stuff you didn't know you didn't know and didn...
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Friday, January 19, 2024

Tree Planting Cars, Part 2

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In Part 1 , the early life of CN 15021 as a Tree Planting Car (TPC) was profiled. In this post, let's move forward in time to the car...
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Friday, January 12, 2024

Tree Planting Cars, Part 1

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Recently added to my bookshelf:  A Prairie Odyssey - Allan Beaven and the Tree Planting Car  by Dianne Beaven (published in 2011, with 2023 ...
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Thursday, January 11, 2024

VIA Ventures in Service, Part 1

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As of January, 2024 and with the delivery of the twelfth Siemens Venture set, I split this Siemens Venture post originally published on Sept...
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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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