HERMON — At least two railroad cars on a train derailed behind a storage facility on Route 2. Railroad workers were at the scene. One of the cars was a tanker while the other appeared to be a boxcar. The tanker was on its side. The derailment occurred behind S&S Self Storage. No further details […]
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Auburn police arrest 3 oil train protestors
AUBURN — The way Jessie Dowling sees it, getting arrested is the very least she can do. “We need to put our bodies on the line,” the 32-year-old Unity woman said, just before being led into a police van for the short ride to jail. “We don’t want another Lac-Megantic.” And there, in one simple […]
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Crude oil low on fire chief’s danger list
The rail line through Lewiston and Auburn is one of three routes regularly used by Pan Am Railways to move crude. Last year, when it became clear that rail companies were preparing to ship crude oil through Maine, state officials started reviewing spill response strategies, according to a report in the Bangor Daily News. Pan […]
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River Views: Labor Day brings back memories of fair week
“Always Labor Day Weekend” was the Maine State Fair slogan when I was growing up. Those days may be gone, but to anyone who experienced its annual six days of excitement, along with a fair share of education, there were many lasting memories. I researched several years in which the fairgrounds next to the railroad […]
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Federal Railroad Administration warns railway to stop using one-man crews in the U.S.
The nation’s top rail safety inspector warned the railway company whose train destroyed the center of a Quebec town last month to cease using one-man crews on its trains, officials said Thursday. Federal Railroad Administration administrator Joseph Szabo challenged but did not order Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway owner Ed Burkhardt to start using two-man […]
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Portland lawyer named as trustee during Montreal, Maine and Atlantic bankruptcy
PORTLAND — A Portland attorney has been named trustee of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway as the company works through its bankruptcy proceedings. The U.S. Trustees Office on Wednesday named Robert Keach, an attorney at Bernstein Shur in Portland, to be MMA’s trustee. MMA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in […]
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Railway alerts Androscoggin County dispatchers to train derailment
LIVERMORE FALLS — Police were alerted last week that a Pan Am train had derailed across Strickland Loop Road, off Route 106, and a section of rail was broken. Pan Am Railways advised the Androscoggin County dispatch center in Auburn on Aug. 15 at 11:34 p.m. that 10 cars had derailed and they were blocking […]
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Man struck by train at Scarborough intersection
SCARBOROUGH — Scarborough police confirmed Sunday morning that one person was struck by a southbound Amtrak Downeaster train near the Black Point Road underpass at about 8:15 a.m. The male victim — whose name has not been released — apparently ran in front of the train while trying to cross the tracks between the crossing […]
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Canada suspends license of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway in Quebec
MONTREAL — Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd., whose runaway oil train exploded and killed 47 people in a Quebec town last month, had its operating certificate suspended by Canada’s transportation regulator. The Canadian Transportation Agency said the carrier lacked sufficient liability coverage in the wake of the disaster in Lac-Megantic, according to a statement […]
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In the wake of bankruptcy, keeping Maine’s rail network intact ‘strategically critical’
Speculation is growing over what the long-term economic impacts will be to the bankruptcy of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway. Experts interviewed by the Bangor Daily News, however, say businesses served by the railroad shouldn’t experience any immediate impacts as a result of the company’s bankruptcy. The railway filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, […]