Montreal Bicycle Club Blog

  A.T. Lane and Birdie Munger headed north to Mont Tremblant on October 23 & 24. A.T. knew the track well. It was new territory for Birdie.  A.T. and Birdie met at the MoWest train station for the 7:07am Exo train to St-Jerome The essence of the trip was revealed in St-Jerome; Mile '0' of Le P'tit Train du Nord multi-use path.  The historic train station was a harbinger of the route, former stations and historical displays that lay ahead. These reflect the  glory years of passenger rail service in the region, spanning almost a century  before the last train trip on November 15, 1981.       Birdie's reflections on passenger rail travel were quickly quashed by a 20-km closure of the path. We'd known about the closure but we didn't expect the barren and risk-ridden alternate route - Hwys 117 and 370 from Prévost to Ste-Marguerite via  Ste-Adèle. We negotiated the rubbled road shoulder, speeding vehicles and Laurentian hills and were happy t