BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 26, 2023
The three locomotives involved in the recent freight train derailment near Rockwood are slated to be dismantled for removal from the site this week, Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection said Wednesday. The move comes after the DEP on Friday warned Canadian Pacific Kansas City, the company that owns the train that derailed April 15, to step up efforts to clean the site. The DEP also cited CPKC for failing to empty saddle tanks on the locomotive before moving the engines last Thursday, which resulted in an estimated 500 gallons of fuel being leaked. The engines continue to leak some diesel and other fluids, which are saturating the ground around the wreckage and a nearby river and lake in the Moosehead Lake region.