Un très bel article à propos du Sentier Nature Tomifobia a récemment été publié sur le site web de Valley News. L’auteur, Marty Basch, du New Hampshire, donne un compte rendu détaillé de sa récente visite sur le sentier. Marty et sa femme ont parcouru le sentier dans les deux directions et ont fait un compte rendu de leur voyage ainsi que tout ce qu’ils ont vu en chemin. Ci-dessous, un extrait de l’article, la version complète de l’article (en anglais) peut être consultée sur le site Web de Valley News. 

Un gros merci à Marty et le News Valley pour ce beau reportage.

Quebec’s Tomifobia Trail a Recreational Gem

By Marty Basch 
Special to the Valley News
Saturday, September 22, 2018

 The large boulder that caused the death of two unsuspecting souls nearly 125 years ago sits alongside the railway where it happened. Now a nature trail in southeastern Quebec’s Eastern Townships, that rock somehow fell onto the Massawippi Valley Railway tracks and derailed a southbound Boston and Maine passenger train traveling from Sherbrooke, Quebec, to Newport, Vt., on the night of April 8, 1895.

The engineer and fireman became trapped in the cab. Passengers freed them. Both were severely scalded by steam and died the next day.

Today, a memorial stands by the site along the Tomifobia Nature Trail, which runs 12 miles by the winding Tomifobia River between the Beebe section of Stanstead and Ayer’s Cliff, on the shores of Lake Massawippi.

The wide trail is a quiet, rich mix of rural life, nature and railroad history. Spruce groves, marshes, cow passageways, stone culverts and the curving Tomifobia, with its swimming holes, share the landscape with railroad bridges, copious one-wheeled gates, hospitable benches and picnic tables.

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