As General McAuliffe said to the Germans in Bastogne: "nuts".
LePage Bakeries used to receive flour by rail on a siding at the corner of Cedar and Lincoln Streets in Lewiston
on the Lewiston Lower branch, some of it arriving in the shorty "Golden Loaf" covered hopper cars. The flour was
unloaded into 18-wheel semi hopper trailers for movement up the street to the plant. At some point in the late 70's
this traffic moved to the Grand Trunk with the unloading operation performed on the siding immediately west of
Lewiston Junction Road using the same semis. I don't know how the flour is delivered now and had wondered if
Safe Handling was involved as hopper cars being unloaded in the same manner can be observed in their yard from
Washington St.