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 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.

PITTSFIELD — A man struck by a train in downtown Pittsfield on Wednesday evening has died, police said. Two males had walked onto the tracks east of the Big Y supermarket on West Street as a westbound freight train approached at about 6:22 p.m., according to a statement issued by Pittsfield Police Lt. Marc Maddalena on Thursday morning.