A 41-year-old man is dead after he was struck by a CSX train while apparently standing with a bicycle on the tracks over the Raquette River this morning.

At approximately 8:48 a.m., the Potsdam Police Department was notified that the northbound train had struck a bicycle on the train trestle adjacent to Sandstone Drive, also know as the bypass.

A short time later, Jonathan E. Black of Norfolk was discovered in the Raquette River and was pulled to shore where life saving measures were initiated by members of the Potsdam Police Department, Potsdam Fire Department, and Potsdam Volunteer Rescue Squad.

Black was transported by the rescue squad to Canton-Potsdam Hospital's Emergency Department where he succumbed to his injuries, police said

Potsdam police are coordinating the investigation with CSX and traffic was rerouted to allow safe operations.

The preliminary investigation indicates that Black was standing on the tracks facing north when he was struck by a northbound train on the south end of the trestle.

A pedestrian emergency space was available on the east side of the rails; however, it appears Black was on the west side of the tracks, police said.

The train's operators utilized its audible alerts when passing through the nearby Pine Street intersection and again when they observed the person in the path of the train, police said.

The train blocked Pine Street at the intersection of NYS Hwy 11 in Potsdam for the rest of the morning as emergency personnel responded to the scene.

Village and state police, the Potsdam Volunteer Fire Department and other emergency personnel responded. Many were clustered on the Sandstone Drive bypass bridge, where some lanes were blocked to traffic, which caused a traffic back-up on Market Street.

The train stopped at Larnard Street.