An Ontario man survived -- visibly uninjured -- after a train ran over him in Thunder Bay, police say.

Police were called just after midnight when a 70-metre long train drove over a man who had passed out between the train tracks. The sound of the passing train woke the man, who crawled away from the tracks after the train passed by.

Officers attending the scene said the man had only 10 inches of clearance from the front of the train. The man was taken to hospital to be examined, but police say he had no visible injuries.