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Thursday, August 28, 2025

VIA Ventures Speed Reductions Become CN Permanent Slow Orders

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During British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's November 10, 1942 speech at the Lord Mayor's Day Luncheon in London, the irascible...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

VIA's Fleet - November, 2024

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If you've ever wondered how VIA Rail Canada's fleet looks in a reasonably current internal planning document, wonder no more! In thi...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Postscript: Seventeenth Anniversary Contest

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Thanks to all those who participated in this year's Seventeenth Anniversary Contest and here's my heartfelt [and can-you-tell-it...
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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Trackside Treasure's Seventeenth Anniversary

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Admittedly, 17 is a rather obscure number to celebrate. It is a prime number, indivisible by any other numbers. Also admittedly, the number ...
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Saturday, August 9, 2025

VIA Ventures in Service, Part 4

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Back in January, 2024 and with the delivery of the twelfth Siemens Venture set, I split my original Siemens Venture post first published on ...
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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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