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Preliminary indications are that the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour and a 30-mile-per-hour track. the train was a 12 car train, and he had a locomotive both in the front and the back. amtrak estimates that 80 passengers were on the train with three crew into service personnel in the cafe cart. >> jon: joining us now, railroad investigator. we are talking to you 24 hours ago when all we had some of the horrible pictures of those train cars still down on the i five from that overpass. what do we know now? yes, speed was a factor, but is there more to it? >> obviously it looks like the ...
>> train 188 and northeast regional was carrying 243 people when it derailed. the former pennsylvania congressman patrick murphy was one of them and described the chaotic scene inside. >> i was in the cafe cart i was in the third or fourth -- i was in it the fourth car probably. there was a lot of blood and got banged up and hurt bad. >> i checked my body parts. i was okay. the guy next to me was unconscious. i slapped him a little wit and got him up. >> a man who lives near the derailment said it sounded like quote a bunch of shopping carts crashing into each other. amtrak investigators are a...
Pinball. i asked her if she was okay. she said yes. but she was getting ice from the cafe cart and little napkin givg it for people's heads. shelves standing there handing it out. then luckily, you know the police philadelphia police officers and philadelphia firefighters were literally there. it was a miracle. >> patrick as you described that horrific scene, when the words started to come out and your tweets and pictures for it to be seen, it seemed like i get the 16 e sense of where this happened because there was absolutely no light. it's almost as if investigators were scraping around the ...
On the train who knew what to do after this happened? >> yeah. lawrence, there was people who were -- some executives in the cafe cart who didn't care about the trains at that window. so so you happen there were others that were really pushing in to make sure others were okay. so i would say that the -- and i don't judge anyone for wanting to get out of the train. but, you know if you don't want to ever leave anyone behind -- to breathe or something. so we're just lucky that the 11 people that remained back you know were not fatal and just had injuries. there was obviously lots of