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  • So these kids were deaf ? You can't miss a train.

  • how come they did not use the NYSW raildroad to do this

  • No matter how smart & well-behaved, 3 is still a little young to be let that much alone, because kids will always be kids.

  • That track is in bad shape.

  • fences could've prevented this from happening

  • who would live next to railroad tracks AND LEAVE YOUR TODDLERS ALONE OUTSIDE AND DON'T EXPECT THEM TO GO BY THE TRACKS?

  • given the track condition its a wonder the tracks were the most dangerous place to be

  • @sillydylan2010

    How is this fucking funny asshole that poor child could've been killed.

  • That's not a Conrail.

  • @modeltrainexpert According to some news articles I found, the actual train was a Conrail, but Rescue 911 was not granted permission to film where the actual incident occurred, so they had to film on a different railway with a different train. I'm not sure why they still decided to title it "Contrail Train", but that was the title given in the TV listings.

  • what is the next episode after this?

  • U trust your 3 year old to look after a 1 year old? You tell him not to go towards the tracks? Simple intro to developmental psychology, when you tell the child not to do something, they will do the exact opposite because they want to get a reaction out of you. That would be something you should listen to when your in parenting classes and such!

  • Railwaymen worldwide have a thumbs up from me!

  • Mother-I trust my 3 year old to watch his 1 year old brother

    Lady, you had a lot to learn, 3 year olds should be in charge of a 1 year old!

  • man that would have scared the hell out of me.  GO CONDUCTOR TONY!!

  • I faintly Remember this episode..all i remembered though was that two kids went on the train tracks and the mother saying once she heard the train whistle blare the way it did, she knew something was wrong...i didn't remember the guy jumping off the train to try and save the two boys

  • Do you have "Maryland Med (Chad)" that was after this one?

  • this train is not a conrail

  • There was an even scarier situation involving my 4 year old and my 2 year old near a landing strip. Me and my wife lived in an anonymous rural washington town with a small to medium plane landing strip just 300 feet from our backard. About 5 years ago ambulance people came to my door while i was working 800 miles away with my 4 year old's body presented to my wife. May he rest in peace.

  • Got Kids? Okay. Buy food? Okay Bring Food to House? Okay Let the kids alone? Okay. Living near Tracks? Okay. Living near Tracks, got kids and leave them alone? NO NEVER NIENTE NEIN! Alternative; You got kids and you're living near Tracks? Make a Fance at the Tracks. I just can say, i saw my friend as ge got hit by a Train. (It was at a Trainstation) And we we're ALOT years older than just 3.. Guys, stay save. Theres something better in life than seeing bodyparts of you Friend/Child.
  • "my only advice to a mother:don't wait for sth. like this to occur,before PUTTING UP A FENCE!"-or watching your 1 and 3 year old,who can climb a fence,or get impaled on the fence...

  • stay off the tracks kids 

  • Last December I was going to a train show when a CSX train was coming I heard running behind me a 13 year old boy trying to beat the train tripped on the tracks and was hit but he lived with only a broken leg and a skull fracture. It still haunts me to this day...

  • Traaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiinnn

  • Oh God, I know this is old but they were babies!!!!!!!!! Scares me still to this day!

  • @sillydylan2010 ...how...how can anyone's mind be sick enough to find this funy?

  • lol i used to take nj transit from absecon to atlantic city all the time

  • NEVER EVERY LET LITTLE KIDS OUT OF YOUR EYE

  • Me and my cousin walks down a huge hill next to her house that leads to a dead end cornfield where there is a train track before you get to it. Whenever we are down there and a train comes her mum warns us to step back a few feet because the speed of the train can suck you into the train and or blow you back. If that's true then why didn't the little boys and the man happen to be harmed like that in any way?

  • why did they unletter the M&E 18?

  • i bet the kid wondered why he got hert by the train

  • in preschool we visited the train station and they showed us a video of why we should not play on them.

    it traumatized me but it made me stay away from train tracks!

  • i bet all you people keep your kids penned up like animals so they cant get out of your sight for one second

    stop criticizing her, she said todd had always listened to her

    she felt she could let them play outside for a FEW MINUTES while she took groceries in i would have let them play outside myself and come got them when i was done

  • @Kelsey112591 No I am sorry but I disagree with you! even if Todd always listened to her it doesn't mean that you can leave your children alone like that!! They were too little to understand the danger!!! My heart stopped when I saw this episode OMG!!!

  • @Kelsey112591 Yet it was Todd who brought them there! I mean don't get me wrong, I completel understand what your saying, and even went through the same responsability as Todd when looking after for my younger siblings.

    But you can't deny that leaving a three year old to look after a one year old is rather foolish, especially when she lives so close to a raiload in the first place!

  • @Kelsey112591 If I had toddlers then yes, I would allow them to stay outside for a few minutes alone. However if there were train tracks or anything which could pose any danger to them, then no.

  • ya think the guy waited long enough to grab the kids? and those parents are dman lucky CPS didn't swipe the kids

  •  Trooper A: "Look sir! Trolls!"

  • when i was that age, the train tracks were right on the property line of the house i lived in, on a 75 by 150 lot....i loved trains, but i never went within 10 feet of the tracks. i now live 300 feet from the same stretch of track that went by my back yard, and aside from crossing them, ive never been on them aside for crossing them

  • the mom said that scott was fearless...c'mon, don't put the blame on the child. aren't toddlers supposed to be like that? they do not know what's right or wrong

  • ANTHONY G. FALZO received Carnegie Medal for Heroism.

  • Where there is smoke there is an Alco.

  • Best part was the cop rolling his ankle running to the tracks and limping to the accident scene.

  • This reminds me when I busted my head open I always thank god for the quick response that the Fire Det. made.

  • i feel short of breath whenever i watch most of these shows... idk why.... but now i know i can't be a paramedic

  • Put up a fence?!!?? My god lady

  • Part 2 of my post: I remember when I was young (2-5 yrs), I was AFRAID of trains, still I liked them. If I saw one coming I would get the hell away from the tracks and cover my ears. Trains are big, loud, and scary to anything that is that small. With all due respect, those kids had something wrong with them if they weren't even scared by the horn blowing which is loud enough to be heard from 10 miles away, and the thing coming at them which is 100x their size. The conductor should be rewarded.

  • Being a 14 year old railfan, I can say that is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. Not just the parents, but the kids too. I mean do they have no sense of sight, touch, or hearing? Forgive me if I'm wrong but I think a 3 year old is old enough to comprehend what a train is. If not that, then they are definitely small and young enough to be scared by one. The horn was blowing, the rails were rumbling, and something 100 times their size was coming at them, oh and a guy yelling "AWAY!"

  • I am pretty sure that conrail locos werent alcos and they where also blue.

  • how stupid is a kid that doesn't know instinctively that something that loud should be avoided?

  • THat kid is pretty lucky

  • i'm looking for the next episode "Maryland Med (Chad)". anyone?

  • Parenting fail!

  • The conductor is an amazing man. Not many people would have done that. Those kids were so lucky not to have been killed. Even with a fence the kids could still find their way out of the yard or go out of a door that is not fenced. Honestly, that's part of the reason I would be terrified to have children if I could have children.

  • @tboneboy2010 true as true

  • I'm posting this comment on September 12, 2010. This segment aired on September 12, 1989. That's 21 years ago.

  • how many signatures are needed for the petition?

  • She' very, very, VERY lucky a cut head is all the baby suffered. Very lucky.

  • WHY let kids unsupervised near a train line? Let alone a line belonging NJ Transit, where trains pass every 5 minutes? Put them in the backyard, and install a tall fence!

    And on a minor note, did the toys on the rail get crushed? Pity.

  • by the way this isn't Conrail

  • good horn!

  • the tracks the train is traveling on look like there in horrible shape because the engine and cars are swaying back and forth

  • Yah see, this is why I never mess around on tracks unless I use my brain, ears, and eyes. I usually stand on the rails at an Amtrak Station with no trains coming...(The station is like a small shelter and platform)

  • Give the conductor a medal, and huge reward too.

  • @K5H13760 To bad nowadays the company would fire him for jumping off moving equipment.

  • If I lived near the tracks, I would show them to my kids, and how dangerous it is to be there. Then tell them if I catch then anywhere near those tracks, they would get a whooping they wouldn't forget!!! Same thing my father would have said to me, and he would have MEANT IT!!!

  • It's a shame these days that not many people have empathy for others, no-one seems to care about anyone else but themselves, gradually all feelings of love and care are being obliterated.

    It's a shame that we have to "Look back" through the years to find love, empathy, heroes, and courage.

    I wish it wasn't so rare.

  • @Fight0Tyranny -It's hard to tell if you're showing off or really upest about it, so let me just say, yeah, you're not the only one.

  • The kids are Stupid because they didn't listen to their mom!

  • They're 1 to 3 years old!

  • 0:23-0:28 the track looks like it needs an alignment and geometry test BADLY

  • Nobody needs to put any fences up,that kind of thinking is why we have all of these bull---- liabilties and law suites.That was an utter failure on the moms part,,period.A 3 year old to watch a 1 1/2 year old,you cant trust a 3 year old period.

    Further more does anybody else wonder maybe, just maybe, the kids were put on the tracks? How does a crawling toddler make it 300 ft in the time it takes to set a bag of groceries in the house?She must have know they were gone,with the next trip..

  • @ryanschofield4494 i was walking at a year and a half. slowly, but its faster than crawling

  • @TTBurger88 Think about it for a minute 1,3 year old,1,1 year old and 1 calm village oh what could happen oh i know a 1 year old getting PWNED by a train : O

  • Yes, of course your three year old will watch his younger brother. Of course you can expect three year olds to take that responsibility and keep themselves out of trouble. Not. Some people really shouldn't have children. Of course parents can make mistakes, but this is not just some mistake, they say she trusted her son to watch over the other one, obviously they were just too young for that and she should've never let them out of her sight.

  • The baby is so stupid....smh!

  • the child was hit by the train????

  • why in gods name would you allow your 3 year old to watch over your younger kid with no fence or anything in the yard, i stopped at a stop sign a few months ago, and in front of me i see this 2 year old in nothing but a diaper toddle into a busy street by himself, then the father proceeded to yell at the 6 year old for not watching him when i ran and grabbed the kid out of the road. i just dont understand it.

  • love it

  • The conductor is flat-out an ANGEL!!!!!!! This could have turned out a LOT WORSE...

  • I thought conrail was blue not red

  • If the brakes won't stop the train, the throw the f***er into reverse and crank up the throttle!

  • @Digitrax83 that would not slow the train down faster, because then the brakes in the other cars wouldnt be on, and the engine would be the only thing stopping the train...its hard to stop a train on a dime

  • holy rolling dog crap i live 15 minutes from ramsey

  • That conducter has balls of steel!! If only this country had more men like him!

  • This is why their city county needs to put fench by thoses railroad tracks because by the time a engineer sees u on the tracks and applys the brakes it going to take a very long time to have the train stop takes like a mile or more for a loaded train to stop.

  • Man, those tracks are in rough shape. If they'd been in better shape, and the train had been moving faster, those boys wouldn't have lived.

  • I wouldn't even have trusted a 1 and 3 year old in an unfenced unsecured back yard period.

  • Look how wiggly that rail is at 0:28 jeez.

  • I used to watch Rescue 911 when it came on Family Channel,but I never saw this one.

  • @mrlemmon There were a few episodes the Family Channel never aired. They never showed Episodes 102, 106, 215, and 220 for some reason, or any episodes from the 7th season. They also didn't show most of the shortened episodes (115, 123, 201, 301, 304, 306, 324, 404, and 509) or the 90-minute episode (223).

  • @allgood2000 That Explains it.

  • @mrlemmon i never saw this show at all on tv, so im seeing it on youtube, i cant believe i missed it!

  • less then 300 feet from the house

  • dont u think they would notice the loud horn?????

  • where were the parents?

  • Those kids just must be freakin deaf! A train less than 200 feet away laying down its horn is not something normal people can miss. I can see the kids not moving away from the train cause they dont know the danger, but they didnt even look up at it! A moth might as well have landed a thousand miles away from them considering the amount of attention they paid to it.

  • I'm so glad the conductor was a quick thinker. 15 year olds have problems with the railroad in my area. One person I know almost got hit by CSX, but got out of the way at the last minute

  • Man, Thank god these kids are safe. Iam a locomotive engineer for CSX. I've seen some stupid drivers at some crossings. i hope i never see anything like this!

  • Wow. This is amazing. I sitll think the idea of playing on the railroad tracks is stupid and very dangerous. Those trains take a mile and a half to stop

  • Wow. That is unbelivable. As Jim in the video There Goes A Train stated "it takes approxamently a mile and a half for a train to stop and walking on railroad tracks is againest the law".

  • The train is blowing its whistle and the kid does not even notice?!

  • I remember this being in my Weekly Reader in Elementary School!

  • What kind of mother leaves a 3 yr old in charge of a 1 year old how stupid could u be especially since they both were still toddlers

  • @TTBurger88 there are a lot of scary things like that. lots of parents don't even watch their kids.

  • @TTBurger88

    I live in a small close, but I still go outside when my 10 year old girls do, I don't leave them alone at ANY time whatsoever.

  • @TTBurger88 so technically it was a baby looking after a baby O.o

  • @TTBurger88 this is the first time i saw this show but i thouht the same thing

  • @TTBurger88 yeah seriously. Does she think a 3-year old can babysit?!

  • this mom is strange!what could this "older" kid do if let's say they were attacked while playing on the street?!let alone if you live near a train!!??you can't take your eyes of of them for a second!! the mom said that she trusted that older kid!!!what???he IS A KID and if he want's to play with something he'll just go and get it!!

    and the conductor is pretty awesome ;)

  • they should of renamed this show to " I'm a shitty parent and this is what happend"

  • watch your freakin' kids ppl OMG.....

  • It looks like they either just did the re-enactment on the Morristown & Erie railway or this "Conrail train" title is not correct. Nonetheless, it's a nice ALCo C424. Notice how they obscured the ME markings on the locomotive.

  • @blarrer20 According to news articles, the actual train was a Conrail. If you Google 'anthony falzo train', you can find links to several articles about the incident.

    I also read a communication from the conductor for the re-enactment that Conrail and NJ Transit wouldn't let Rescue 911 film on their property, which is why they had to film on Morristown & Erie. You can find that if you Google "(erielack) ENGINEER ON PILOT PICKS BABY OFF RAIL".

  • yeah i just found those articles just now and they read just like this segment.

  • @blarrer20 Adding to what he said it also could of been a bought power unit

  • Why does it say Conrail thats ERIE

  • those pants are pretty low for a 4 year old...

  • Mother should not have trusted little "older" brother.

    Boys can get away so quickly without notice.

    They could have been in the house happily watching their favorite TV program and still have gotten to the tracks before being discovered thathey were gone.

    I thoughthe brakeman would have pushed them aside.

    When I rode in Amtrak locomotive, I was surprised thathere were no binoculars to check out something questionable ahead.

  • Hindsight is 20/20.

  • I bet that conductor is sleeping with the mom now

  • @rockmeister33 hahahahaha

    i would say sumthin negative bout that, but im laughin too hard

    ...nice

  • Yeah lols!!!!

  • mAN how long does it take to stop

  • 2 to 3 miles

  • @firemanupton it depends on the train's weight and speed. if it is carrying ten cars at 10 mph, it would stop faster than a 50 car train going 25. the car's weight pushes the train farther down the heavier it is.

  • a train can sometimes take up to a mile to stop completely. depending on how many cars are on the train adding to the mass

  • it take a train about two miles or more to stop because of the weight of the train it self the only thing the train crew to do pull the whistle put on the brakes and pray

  • That is the worlds luckiest kid. Thank the Conductor who jumped off the train to protect the kids, thank the guy stopping the train, and at the end of the day thank God too (or at least the kids guardian angel). If not religious, say thank you to the Universe.

  • I liked how the train was going around 25-35 mph at the time, people can't run faster than that plus on the rocks and rails - even slower.

  • @hotzelj But by the time he jumped off, the train had been under emergency braking for some time. He just needed to get far enough ahead to pull the boys out of the direct path.

  • I don't care if it was faked or not, the fact that this man risked his life to save to beautiful lil boys, is great. I would throw myself in front of a train to save to two lil boys too.

  • how terrible for those little kids hit by a train

  • I agree with the posts below. Looks like they re-enacted the incident on the shortline ME.

    I love innacuracies in these stories. 250 ton train? LOL The loco weighs around that much alone.

    3 year old outside playing alone? I just don't get it. Surely there's more to this story than that. Who does that?

  • why want it on dvd when you can just watch it on here

  • @maxcady69 Not all the episodes are on here.

  • @charlieb640 I think they meant 2500 ton.

  • I cant possibly imagine what goes through his head when an engineer experience this... Devastating i guess... Very nice actions by the conductor...

  • This was in 1989.

  • I think something in life is going to get those kids at some point.

  • That mama knows better than to let her sons play outside undersupervised dosen't matter how old they are.

  • Hell my 9 year old knew better at 3

  • was it 1987 or 1986

  • Why the do kids under 3 these days act like total animals? Swallowing model cars, playing on tracks?!

  • Gaw, why the heck do kids under 3 these days act like total monkeys? Swallowing model cars, playing on tracks?!

  • it was the mothers fault.....she shouldnt have left them out there. if i was there id arrest her for endangerment and neglect

  • Train crew's worst nightmare right there.

  • wow. i would smack those kids so hard for being so stupid! likewise with the mom!

  • and theres an accident so you call the cops?, whats he meant to do arrest the trains brakes?

  • There's a lot of Rescue 911 eps w/ inattentive parents that could've prevented accidents from happening, but this mom in this segment is probably the most ridiculous. Seriously, who ever heard of a responsible 3 year old? A baby, a 3 year old, no parental supervision, and train tracks in the backyard isn't a good combination.

  • whats the episode at the end of the video?

  • I'm happy the kids didn't get hurt worse all I know is if I had children I would not leave them outside there to young 3 and 1 year olds. We live by railroad track a little further than them and we have a fence in our yard and my siblings know there not aloud to play by them at all

  • aww, even though this is really old, it made me sad, that poor lil baby boy! I agree, never live near train tracks if you have kids. I lived near them as a kid and used to play on the tracks! I now realize I could've been hit!

  • Scared me seeing the kid in the yellow with his whole body spread out on the rail....Neat old alco though.

  • yeah the big old loud ones were great. now its all quiet stuff and what not

  • What kind of a mother is that. She should have had her children taken away from her.

  • I don't understand how the kids weren't scared to death by the blaring whistle.

  • i love how that's Morriston and Erie. not fucking Conrail! FAILtastic!

  • They could have done with "Todler trouble". But they had to fail.

  • Tod should looks this is what it should be: <_< :O *grab scott and run out of the way* or for the parent: *grab babys and take in and put groccries away*

  • that's a new paint scheme for a merged company

  • Even though I think my opinion wont matter since everyone else has pretty much commented on this matter, I will throw in my two cents as well:

    That mother SHOULD NOT have left her 3 year old son to babysit his 1 1/2 year old brother. And if she KNEW that there were train tracks near her house, she should have HAD A FENCE INSTALLED to prevent her children from going that way in the first place. CPS SHOULD have taken away her kids because of this and charged her with child negligence.

  • boys will be boys, this is understood.

    but what the hell were those little boys doing unsupervised,living that close to the tracks! when i was that small,you couldnt keep me away from the tracks!

  • I applaud the self education.  But be mindful.

  • Why would she think that boys at the age of three and one would have enough sense to stay put just because she told them too? NO WAY! She should have made them play in the house where she could keep and eye on them. Kids that small have NO sense of self control and definitely no sense of danger. Well, God watches out for babies and fools..

  • way to watch those kids....way to leave them outside alone, to wander to the tracks...

  • wrong colors for conrail

  • whats a conrail?

  • Conrail was a railroad that was merged into two other railroads: Norfolk Southern and CSX. 

    Conrail engines were blue with white lettering and stripes.

  • Yeah but this is a morristown and erie loco not a Conrail one

  • It could have been rented or have been owned by Conrail

  • a train company, although this is not a conrail engine. they merged with csx and ns

  • they were old prison trains. They carried cons all over the country to different prisons. They even had an airline, Con Air lol

  • 7:49 I had that kind of jeep as a kid., and please upload the next segment.

  • "omg what happened!"

    wtf do you think happened woman ..

  • glad those kids were not seriously injured

  • These children are todlers!! What is wrong with the mother not supervising them what so ever. She doesn't seem to have a lot of common sense. "Oh my god. What happened, what happened?" WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

  • I'd hate to say it my friend, but even by then common sense had long died in this society. It was nice that those kids survived, but I see no justice in the fact that they were not taken away. It is down right outragous that one could get away with being that incompitent as a parent. I don't have kids and even I know that kids that age can't be unsupervised.