Hey guys! Do you like true-life survival stories? Then check this one out. So, picture this - brakes screaming, a 6,200-ton freight train is desperately trying to stop. The two men controlling the machine are looking at the tracks before them in horror. They know they won’t come to a halt in time. So the conductor does the unthinkable…

It was a perfectly sunny day in Lafayette, Indiana, and Tila Marshall, mother of four, decided it was a good time to do some garden work. She went to her backyard and got down to tending the flowers, leaving her 19-month-old daughter Emily with her older brother. In the meantime, Robert Mohr and Rod Lindley were sitting in the cab of a locomotive making its slow but steady way through the flat Indiana landscape. When the locomotive rounded the curve, Lindley noticed something small on the tracks just a few hundred feet away.

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