This member of a railroad switching crew noticed some thing amiss in front of him prior to an approaching fast freight he calmly made his way to the main line track picked up this Desert Tortoise and moved him off the track he was attempting to climb and in to a near by drainage area in the direction the tortoise was going.
In Nevada it is against the law to move a tortoise even out of harm's way. Afterwards the tortoise kept crawling away from the tracks and the crew member returned to his train.