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KHP investigating after Amtrak train hits cattle truck

Thursday morning accident in Lyon Co. photos courtesy KVOE
Photo courtesy KVOE

LYON COUNTY – The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating an accident just before 9a.m. Thursday involving an Amtrak passenger train that collided with a cattle truck in Lyon County.

The livestock trailer was split in half in the collision near Road 240 and Road X outside the small town of Reading, northeast of Emporia.

Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari told The Associated Press that at least two of the three crew members in the cab of the Southwest Chief sustained minor cuts and bruises.

He says none of the 211 passengers were hurt. The train left Los Angeles on Tuesday and will resume its trip to Chicago after a replacement crew arrives and the damaged lead locomotive is disconnected.

-The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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