Death on train tracks being treated as suicide
City police say the person who was fatally struck Monday in Midtown was a man in his mid-50s.
The pedestrian who was struck and killed by a train near the Broadway overpass in Midtown was a man in his mid50s, and the death is being investigated as a suicide, city police Detective Sgt. Brian Robertson said Tuesday. The man was fatally struck by a southbound CSX freight train about 11:30 a.m. Monday.
Police have not released the man’s name.
For about two hours after the incident, all railroad crossings in Kingston south of Foxhall Avenue were blocked by the stopped train. The tracks were cleared and the train began moving again about 1:30 p.m.
A CSX official said the train was en route from northwest Ohio to Philadelphia and consisted of two locomotives and 17 rail cars carrying mixed freight.