AUGUSTA — A bill that funds a $500,000 study and plan for bringing passenger rail service to Lewiston-Auburn passed the House of Representatives with little fanfare late last week. The bill, LD 323, sponsored by Rep. Jared Golden, D-Lewiston, has enjoyed strong bipartisan support at the State House as well as the backing of Lewiston’s […]
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Train locomotive catches fire
MONMOUTH — Police say a train locomotive caught fire in the Maine town of Monmouth. The fire happened at 7 a.m. at a train track crossing over a road. WCSH-TV reports that it took about 20 minutes to get the fire under control and no one was injured.
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Storm dumps 15 inches; ‘lucky’ driver walks away from train collision
They slipped, slid and skied. After an ugly storm brought 15 inches of snow to Lewiston-Auburn and parts of Western Maine overnight Wednesday into Thursday, police responded to a myriad of accidents, including a truck-train collision. A tractor-trailer driver in South Paris walked away after he ran flashing red lights, got stuck on train tracks […]
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13-year-old girl killed by train in Massachusetts
LAWRENCE, Mass. — A 13-year-old girl who was crossing a set of train tracks with a friend was hit and killed by a commuter train in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Carrie Kimball Monahan, of the Essex District Attorney’s office, says in a statement that the accident happened Friday afternoon. The girls were cutting between two cars of […]
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Locomotives from bankrupt railroad to be auctioned
MILO — An auction this week will feature dozens of locomotives formerly owned by the company responsible for last year’s deadly derailment in Quebec. Twenty-four of the locomotives were owned by the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railways, which filed for bankruptcy and was sold. Seven others were affiliated with MMA’s former parent company, Rail World […]
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Truck driver injured when rig collides with train in Livermore Falls
LIVERMORE FALLS — The driver of a pulp truck loaded with wood was injured Wednesday afternoon when the truck crashed into a Pan Am Railways train on Main Street near the Bank Building. Jeremy Tillson, 25, of Sidney told police he did not hear the train or the bells or see the train before the […]
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Cause yet to be determined in Rumford train derailment
RUMFORD — After a week of investigating, a cause has yet to be determined for the six rail cars that slipped off the tracks on the evening of July 11 on Route 108 in Rumford, said Cynthia Scarano, the Pan Am Railways vice president of human resources. The trains, which are part of Pan Am […]
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Lawmakers question plan to build Downeaster layover facility in Brunswick, suggest South Portland
BRUNSWICK — Six Democratic legislators are urging the organization that operates the Amtrak Downeaster to reconsider building a controversial, 60,000-square-foot layover facility in Brunswick and instead build it in South Portland. In a June 18 letter to Patricia Quinn, executive director of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, Sen. Edward Mazurek of Rockland and […]
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Woman killed by Amtrak Downeaster identified as South Portland resident
SOUTH PORTLAND — The woman struck and killed by an Amtrak Downeaster train in Maine over the weekend has been identified as a South Portland woman. Amtrak officials say 39-year-old Nyla Howard was walking on the tracks when she was struck by a Boston-bound train just before 7 p.m. Saturday near Calvary Cemetery in South […]
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Sale of bankrupt railroad blamed for deadly Quebec derailment completed in US
PORTLAND — The sale of the Maine-based railroad blamed for a deadly oil train derailment in Quebec has been completed 10 months after the disaster that claimed 47 lives. Chapter 11 trustee Robert Keach said the parties closed Thursday on the $15.85 million sale of bankrupt Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway. A separate, parallel Canadian […]