Topeka pedestrian dead after being struck by train early Wednesday

Topeka police officers were called to a south Topeka site where a body was found Wednesday morning after the pedestrian was struck by a train.

Neither the identity of the person nor the dead person’s sex were immediately available.

At 6:18 a.m. Wednesday, police were dispatched to train tracks just east of S. Kansas Avenue and Croix.

The location is just west of the Landon Nature Trail and Betty Phillips Park and northeast of S.W. 37th and Topeka.

The north-south tracks are roughly 50 yards east of the intersection.

The northbound train was stopped just north of the body.

Several uniformed Topeka police officers and a Burlington Northern Santa Fe official were standing by at the site waiting for police detectives and crime scene officers to arrive.

Contact reporter Steve Fry at (785) 295-1206 or @TCJCourtsNCrime on Twitter.