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A bucket truck from On Target Utility Services, left, passes through the gate Tuesday at the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay. The crew is one of several on their way to lift low-hanging utility lines as a massive heat recovery steam generator, background, begins a journey to South Portland. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
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A giant heat recovery steam generator snarls traffic Tuesday, and will continue to South Portland through Wednesday.
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Maine State Police, escort vehicles and crews from Barnhart Crane & Rigging, and On Target Utility Services vehicles assemble Tuesday evening inside the gate at the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageBucket trucks from On Target Utility Services begin to pass through the gate at the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay on Tuesday evening on their way to lift low hanging utility lines as a massive heat recovery steam generator begins its two-day journey to South Portland. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageA bucket truck from On Target Utility Services, left, passes through the gate Tuesday at the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay. The crew is one of several on their way to lift low-hanging utility lines as a massive heat recovery steam generator, background, begins a journey to South Portland. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
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An employee from On Target Utility Services raises a power line Tuesday on Riley Road, across from a gate at the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay. A massive heat recovery steam generator is being moved over the next two days from the Jay mill to South Portland. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageBucket trucks from On Target Utility Services pass through the gate at the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay on Tuesday evening on their way to lift low hanging utility lines as a massive heat recovery steam generator, background, begins its journey to South Portland. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageThe “super oversize” heat recovery steam generator squeezes through the gate at the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay on Tuesday evening on its two-day journey to South Portland. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageA utility worker in a bucket truck lifts an electric line so the “super oversize” load can pass underneath as it turns onto Riley Road leaving the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay on Tuesday evening to begin its two-day journey to South Portland. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageThe “super oversize” heat recovery steam generator leaves the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay on Tuesday evening at the beginning of its two-day journey to South Portland. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageA worker from Barnhart Crane & Rigging makes adjustments to the giant trailer being used to carry a “super oversize” heat recovery steam generator Tuesday as it leaves the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay on an expected two-day journey to South Portland. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageThe “super oversize” heat recovery steam generator leaves the former Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in Jay on Tuesday evening en route to South Portland. The move is expected to take two days. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
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A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...
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