Pan Am conductor mugged at Fairgrounds siding (Lewiston, ME)

Today's Lewiston Sun Journal reports that early Wed AM(July 10) that a conductor doing his brake check,after a stop, at the Fairgorunds passing siding, was attacked to by 2 young men(ages 17-25, he estimates) and a small amount of money was taken from him. Thankfully, he was not seriously injured.

The 2 men were seen running in the direction of the Tall Pines Apartments, a "subsidized housing project", whose residents are NOT "model citizens"!

Guilford trains have had trouble over the years with rocks etc. being thrown at trains as they use the passing siding.

Bud

LEWISTON - Police are looking for two men who robbed a train conductor early Wednesday morning just off Main Street.

The Pan Am Railways conductor had stopped the train just after it crossed Main Street and was inspecting the brakes when two men came out the woods and attacked him, police said.

The full article can be viewed at:

http://www.sunjournal.com/story/220544- ... in_mugged/

Wow. I've taken pictures of freights from that area. There are a lot of wackos around there that walk the streets around that time of night. I live just outside the L/A area and am glad I don't have to walk those streets at night.
Hope they are caught, that crazy that conductor got robbed. Wonder if it was the one I talked to several weeks ago?

Wow.

Private property. Shoot em. Shoot to kill.