Better rail service means more transport options for Maine’s potato farms
For the first time in more than four decades, a rail car parked outside a potato storage facility in Van Buren is filled and ready to move.
Credit: Courtesy of Maine Department of Transportation
Eighty tons — four legal truckloads — is how many potatoes fill a railcar. Jay LaJoie knows because his company has sent nearly 40 of those cars loaded with Aroostook County’s 2021 crop to processors on the other side of the country.
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