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>> Liz: A TRAIN WORKER
IS BEING PRAISED FOR HIS
QUICK ACTION IS PREVENTING
A TRAGEDY.
>> Bob: HE SAW SOMEONE
LYING ON THE TRACKS AND
KNEW HE HAD TO MOVE FAST.
PAM CROSS JOINS US LIVE
WITH WHAT THAT CONDUCTOR
HAD TO SAY TODAY.
PAM?
>> Reporter: HE SAID IT
IS ALL IN A DAY'S WORK.
THE TRAIN LEFT HERE AT
SOUTH STATION.
IT WAS NEARING STOWTON AND
IT WAS GOING BETWEEN 10
AND 25 MILES PER HOUR.
CHRIS HAS BEEN AN ENGINEER
17 YEARS.
JOHN GIBBS, ON THE LEFT, A
CONDUCTOR FOR 16 AS WELL.
THEY PUT THEIR COMBINED 55
YEARS OF RAILWAY
EXPERIENCE TO WORK LAST
NIGHT.
THEIR TRAIN WAS JUST
OUTSIDE THE STOUGHTON
CENTER.
>> I'VE GOT A GUY LAYING
EN THE MIDDLE OF THE
TRACK.
>> A STOP JUST NORTH OF
SCHOOL STREET, AND THERE
IS A GUY LAYING AND THE
MIDDLE OF THE TRACKS,
OVER?
>> CORRECT.
>> OH, BOY.
>> WE HAD A COUPLE HUNDRED
FEET TO STOP.
IT IS NOT A FAST-TRACK
THERE, BUT IT IS A BUSY
LITTLE SPOT.
>> Reporter: THE MAN ON
HIS TRACK WAS IN HIS
50s.
HOLME STOPPED THE FEET -- TRAIN
50 FEET AWAY.
>> ONCE YOU REALIZE WHAT
IT IS, YOU DO WHAT YOU
HAVE TO DO.
>> Reporter: ONCE THE
TRAIN STOPPED, THE
CONDUCTOR CLIMBED DOWN.
>> Reporter: THE GUY WAS
MOVING.
WAS HE TALKING?
>> HE WAS MOVING.
HE WASN'T COHERENT.
HE TOLD ME HE WANTED TO
REST.
AND I SAID, YOU CAN'T REST
HERE.
HAD A LITTLE CONVERSATION.
HE WAS ALL RIGHT, NO
BLOOD.
>> Reporter: THE TWO MEN