The fire-damaged engine of the Amtrak Downeaster that collided with a tractor-trailer truck hauling garbage in North Berwick Monday morning is pictured above. The train was carrying 112 passengers when the truck crashed into it at a grade level crossing on Route 4. A few passengers sustained minor injuries. The tractor trailer driver, Peter Barnum, 35, of Farmington, N.H., was killed in the crash. (TAMMY WELLS/Journal Tribune)
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