A three-year-old child with autism was rescued from train tracks in New York by workers on an approaching Metro-North train.<br /><br />Locomotive Engineer William Kennedy was operating a southbound Hudson Line train on 6 April when he spotted the boy on the tracks near Tarrytown Station.<br /><br />He immediately alerted nearby train crews and footage shows another train, helmed by engineer Shawn Loughran and a trainee, spotting the child dangerously near - and then on top of - an electrified third rail.<br /><br />Once the electricity is cut from the tracks, a worker can be seen running ahead of the train to snatch the boy out of harm’s way.<br /><br />The crew then travelled back to Tarrytown, where they were met by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department officers and Tarrytown EMS.
