Trucks, trains and box trailers are moving in and out of Skyway Industrial Park after two inactive years.

Last week's renewal of traffic stems from a local customer's decision to move goods through Presque Isle Intermodal, the city- owned terminal leased to a company affiliated with the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway.

The intermodal operation has been idle since March 2002 because of a lack of customers, according to Larry Clark, executive director of the Presque Isle Industrial Council, which manages Skyway Industrial Park. Clark would not identify the customer using the terminal.

Twenty-six box trailers arrived Tuesday at the facility's rail yard from the Vermont Railway. Another 30 to 60 are expected to be positioned at the site for transporting local products out of town.

Goods leave Presque Isle on rail cars to be delivered to Palmer, Mass., and, from there, are distributed throughout the country by train or truck.

A Canadian business also is looking at the facility for transporting products, Clark said.

Since last week, traffic has been moving steadily to and from the facility, which is operated by Logistics Management Systems, an affiliate of the railroad based in Bangor. LMS was part of the former Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, which went bankrupt.

"We're very encouraged by the recent activity," Clark said. "But what we're really excited about is to see new traffic up and operating again ... [because] the yard provides to businesses in the County another means of moving their product out of the area."