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Just pulling past 113 now. Not sure if they'll keep going, or can it at Waterville for a while, nothing on the scanner so far.
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Bangor Daily News wrote:Oil trains are once again rolling through Maine after slowing to a near halt following the deadly train accident almost two years ago in Lac-Megantic, a small town just across the border in Quebec, according to state records.Read the rest of the article at: http://bangordailynews.com/2015/04/16/b ... ng-hiatus/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Pan Am Railways reported carrying 37,128 barrels through the state in February, the first train-borne oil shipments since March of 2014, according to the most recent figures from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
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Shipments of oil by rail through Maine dropped off from a peak of 5.2 million barrels in 2012, the year before the Quebec crash, to just 15,545 barrels in 2014.