BY ANDY TAYLOR

chronicle@taylornews.org

CHERRYVALE — The Cherryvale area as well as South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad, which has Cherryvale as its headquarters, will be the primary beneficiaries of a $10.2 million federal grant designed to enhance the railroad’s system in southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma.

The Kansas Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that it had been awarded a $10.2 million federal Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery II (TIGER II) grant that will be solely used to assist the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad with its rail operations in the Cherryvale area.  The South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad is headquartered in Cherryvale and extends through southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The short-line railroad is a subsidiary of Watco Transportation, Inc., which is based in Pittsburg, Kan.

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