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Then (August 9, 1916): Flooding caused the washout of the rail bed and derailment of a locomotive at the village of Tomifobia (previously known as Smith's Mills). View towards north, parallel to Chemin Stanstead. Photographer unknown, courtesy of Stanstead Historical Society.


Now (July 2017): The former railbed has become the Tomifobia Nature Trail, which follows the original route of the Massawippi Valley Railway from Stanstead (Beebe) to Ayer's Cliff. Some of the buildings still remain today. Tom Montgomery