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Monday, April 1, 2024

Kingston & Pembroke Facilities in Kingston

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This is the third  in a five-post series  on the Kingston & Pembroke Railway. This post deals with the buildings and facilities that the...

VIA Returns to the Kingston & Pembroke!

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At first, when I heard about VIA planning to build its High Speed Rail (HSR) intercity line through Sharbot Lake, I didn't think much ab...
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Friday, March 22, 2024

Kingston & Pembroke Railway - Part 2

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In the first post in this five-post series, we traced the genesis of the Kingston & Pembroke Railway, locally referred to as 'the K...
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Kingston & Pembroke Railway - Part 1

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There were so many shortlines to be built and so little time... Prospectors, entrepreneurs, city fathers, venture capitalists, boosters, huc...
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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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