Trackside Treasure

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

ALTOgether Now! A Thoughtful Commentary

I consider Jakob Mueller to be something of a wunderkind . His encyclopedic knowledge of VIA Rail Canada and its rolling stock is what got m...

Friday, February 6, 2026

50 Years Trackside ...1976-77 Original Notes

As we embark on a year-long retrospective series celebrating my Fifty Years Trackside - watching trains and taking numbers - this first five...

Sunday, February 1, 2026

50 Years Trackside ...1976-81 The Bug Bites

This is hard to believe. I've been fifty years since I started scribbling train numbers and transcribing them for posterity. Starting wi...

Thursday, January 22, 2026

VIA and CN in Quebec Superior Court, Part 5

In Part 4 of this ever-enlarging series of posts about VIA's quest in Quebec Superior Court for a permanent injunction...

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Rather Sketchy Profile

Eric: 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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