HAVEN, Kan. — Work crews are making quick clean up of Saturday’s train/semi accident near Haven, but it will be Thursday before trains start moving again.

Officials with the parent company of the K and O Railroad, Watco Transportation, say the accident Saturday caused three locomotives and 15 cars to leave the tracks. Ten of those cars were damaged beyond repair. The three locomotives were lifted back on the tracks and removed. Crews were working Monday afternoon to clear grain from the cars so they can be cut up and removed. The derailment also damaged more than 900 feet of track.

Watco wants to get the line open quickly with harvest getting into full swing. The short-line railroad carries most of the summer and fall crops from central and western Kansas to Hutchinson and Wichita for shipment by both the BNSF and Union Pacific.