New Book To Buy: Trackside With VIA

There is a new VIA Rail book available for purchase to one and all! The book is titled Trackside With VIA: The First 35 Years and it is self-published by Eric Gagnon. If you wish to purchase a copy of the book, the price of this White & Yellow gem is $25 CDN and ships free within Canada. Just print a copy of this Order Form, fill it out and drop it in the mail.

Mine is happily on its way to me! Get yours Today!

Eric is also the author an outstanding blog called Trackside Treasure where you can find a plethora of information and pictures from last few decades up to today.

Cheers,

Railfaning Around The World - India

I wanted to share a discovery that I had made about a year ago. I had done an extremely quick search on Google for "railfan blog" and one result quickly caught my attention. I think at that time it was like fifth or sixth down on the search results list. The name of this blog was Platfom 7 - A Railfan's Blog. The blog is maintained by a fellow called Binai K. Sankar and he writes about railfanning and busfanning in India. He also maintains in conjunction with his blog, a photo gallery which contains his railfanning photos on Fotopic.net called Railway Junction.

It is interesting to see what types of locomotives that are being used and operated on a daily basis in another country halfway around the world. I did notice that most of the diesel locomotives have high nose hoods. I am interested to know who is the manufacturer of these diesels. Also, you will notice that just about every locomotive number is five digits compared to our North American four digit numbers. Also they have a naming system that identifies the type of train it is suppose to be which he explains in one of his posts.

I you have a few minutes and are looking for something different to read, then I suggest to take a look at this interesting railfan blog.

Cheers,