Updated July 23
New MRI building makes it to hospital campus After getting stuck at the Penobscot Narrows Bridge, a low-slung flatbed truck and its cargo finally reach Bar Harbor the next day.
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Mount Desert Island Hospital’s new MRI unit building, hauled by Trans-United Trucking, on its way to Bar Harbor July 15. Ellsworth American photo by Jared Gendron
By Faith DeAmbrose, Ellsworth American
BAR HARBOR Nearly minute by minute, area residents tracked the last 45 miles of a 1,400-mile trip to deliver a 200,000-pound building to Mount Desert Island Hospital.
Those last 45 miles took nearly 10 hours to complete, but when the driver, Mike Saxton of Trans-United Trucking, reached his destination July 15, much to his surprise, he was met with applause and admiration for a job well done even after holding up traffic at the Penobscot Narrows Bridge and again for four hours in Northeast Harbor.
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Stuck Again – This Time in Northeast Harbor [PHOTOS]
Update - The unit finally reached the ballfield in Bar Harbor Thursday evening
Today, Thursday, July 15, the trek resumed and went fine through Ellsworth and Trenton and onto the Island. They were actually moving a little ahead of schedule, and I was in Bar Harbor at the ballfield waiting for them to arrive. I wanted to take photos of the unit being lifted onto the trailer that would take it to the hospital.
Tractor waiting to take MRI unit to MDI Hospital July 15, 2021
Then word came that the trailer and unit were stuck in Northeast Harbor, near the Asticou Inn.
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