WINDSOR (AP) — State police will escort a 286-ton electrical transformer over the road from Searsport to a new Central Maine Power Company substation on Coopers Mills Road in Windsor.
The transformer is scheduled leave the Mack Point Marine Terminal in Searsport early this morning on a 16-axle tractor-trailer rig. The total gross weight of the truck and transformer assembly is 426 tons.
The new transformer is part of CMP’s $1.4 billion upgrade of Maine’s bulk power transmission system. Its delivery could take up to two days to complete.
The truck leaves Searsport at 5 a.m. Its first leg will take it south on U.S. Route 1 to Belfast.
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