Despite the train operator's warning horn, one of two men walking on the train tracks was hit and fatally struck Wednesday evening.

A man was struck and killed by a train in Pittsfield Wednesday evening. Pittsfield schools end hold-in-passing after online threat, no danger found The Pittsfield Police Department states that at approximately 6:22 p.

PITTSFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - One person has died after being hit by a freight train Wednesday night in Pittsfield. Police said crews responded to the railroad tracks just before 6:30 p.m. in the area of Big Y. They said two males were observed walking on the tracks in that area.

A man was killed after he was struck by a freight train near a supermarket in Pittsfield, according to police. According to police, at 6:22 P.m. Wednesday, the Pittsfield Police and Fire Department responded to the railroad tracks in the area of The Big Y Supermarket for a report of a pedestrian struck by a west bound freight train.