Authorities in Harrison County today (Friday), released the name of a man who died when he was hit by a train earlier this week. Officials say 59-year old Alan C. Nelson, from  Lawrence, Kansas,was struck Monday afternoon by a train traveling from California to Chicago. The locomotive hauling freight had just crossed the Missouri River into Iowa east of the Blair, NE bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, when Nelson was struck. His death has been ruled a suicide.