JAY – No one was injured Wednesday when at least three boxcars derailed from a Pan Am Railways freight train at about 9:30 a.m. Two train cars rolled over, one was leaning and two others may have gone off the tracks, police officer Steve Wilkinson said.
He was directing traffic through the train-crossing signals as conductor Alan Petersen and Pan Am representative Chad Rombalski tried to figure out what caused the derailment.
The train was headed south toward downtown Jay when it derailed south of Verso Paper’s Androscoggin Mill, Wilkinson said.
The train cars were loaded with paper products, but none were believed to have spilled, he said.
A call to Pan Am Railways was not immediately returned Wednesday.
As the day went on, more railroad company representatives arrived on the scene to help.
Verso Paper spokesman Bill Cohen said a branch of the railroad tracks goes to the Androscoggin Mill, but he was not sure if it was their product on the train.
The track also runs through Rumford and to the NewPage paper mill there.
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