A section of Keystone Road in Hempfield will close beginning Wednesday for maintenance of a railroad crossing.
Crews from Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad are scheduled to begin work at 8:30 a.m. The closure, between Eckman Way and Huff Avenue, is expected to continue until 3:30 p.m. Aug. 3.
PennDOT has designated a detour using Route 119 and Willow Crossing and Carbon roads.
The Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corp. recently hired Frontier Railroad Services of New Stanton to rehabilitate a 4-mile section of Southwest Pennsylvania track that runs from behind the Walmart store in Hempfield’s Greengate Centre plaza to Youngwood. That $2.3 million project is being funded through a $1.6 million Pennsylvania Rail Transportation Assistance Program grant and $709,000 from Carload Express, an Oakmont-based company that operates the rail system.
