2 MTA workers honored for saving child onto train tracks

The child’s mother stepped onto the train and hugged her little boy, crying tears of joy. He’d been missing for more than an hour. What she didn’t know is that he’d tumbled over a wall and crawled into the path of a Metro North commuter train.

It was engineer William Kennedy who first spotted the child alongside the tracks, and jammed on the brakes after barreling past the boy at 70 miles per hour.
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