BNSF Railway starts a rehabilitation project

Tuesday morning, the BNSF Railway to started a rehabilitation project on its mainline crossing on US-400 Highway east of the US-400/K-7 junction at Cherokee. The old railroad crossing will be removed and replaced by new tracks and a new public crossing surface. 
BNSF closed the crossing to through traffic Tuesday morning. The crossing will remain closed throughout the week, and will be reopened around 4 p.m. Friday.  
Eastbound US-400 motorists will be detoured around the work zone as follows: from Cherokee,  north on K-7 to K-126, east on K-126 to US-69, and south on US-69 to US-400. Westbound motorists  should take the same route in reverse order.
Persons with questions about the work may contact Priscilla  Petersen, Southeast District Public Affairs Manager with the Kansas Department of Transportation  (KDOT), 1-877-550-5368 (toll free), or Wayne Nelson, KDOT Area Maintenance Superintendent at the  Pittsburg office, 231-7560.