Tom Bell

Associated Press

In this March 20, 2013 file photo, a sign marks the location of an oil pipeline in Irasburg, VT. The pipeline buried under three New England states that carried foreign crude oil from the Port of Portland to refineries in Montreal for 75 years has been mothballed.

75-Year-Old Oil Pipeline Shuts Down

The 236-mile-long pipeline was built to provide crude oil at a time when German U-boats that could sink oil tankers were patrolling the western Atlantic.