Crime&Stuff

204. How did Cape Breton’s boys end up dead on Maine railroad tracks?

In July 1970, three young men from Cape Breton set off on a great adventure across the border. The adventure ended in tragedy, on the tracks of the Bangor & Aroostook rail line in Maine. No one believed at the time — or now — that Ken Novak, Terry Burt and David Burrows would bed down on active railroad tracks for the night, and not react as a freight train beared down on them. No one but local…