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Other passengers already there trying to get the door open. so those doors, if you press on it, they slide open. so i'm sure they were having trouble getting it to slide properly. but they were able to push it open enough to start having passengers climb out one by one. >> when you get out of the train, can you -- is there a moment where you were trying to figure out how to get out of the train? >> i was trying to figure out where we were. i didn't know we were in philadelphia. you know, i just -- >> where are we? >> and i saw darkness, i saw trees and my first instinct was to get as far away ...

>> do you have trains that go up that high? >> amtrak can go faster than septa at 70 miles per hour. >> i got to see from the helicopter today, that turn, which is -- it basically is close to a right angle as you can get on a train. obviously the track curves, it's doing this, essentially. >> what's the -- the protocol when you're making a sharp turn, is the turn rated for speed also. >> the track speed will be downgraded based on the curvature of the track or other factors such as inclines and declines, the track is -- track speed will generally decline in a curve. depending also on super ele...

Thinking. could these collapse? as i'm looking at that scene, i realize that it looks like the train has been pulled apart, i don't know if it was. >> did you go to the hospital? >> yeah, i did, badly bruised but okay. >> janelle richards, thanks for sharing your experience and please take care of yourself. >> nbc news has confirmed the name and a photo of the engineer of that train. i believe we have it up now, his name is brian bossian. he was manning a train, that was, as we know from the ntsb, traveling very fast, over 100 miles an hour. as he says, he applied the full emergency brake just...

Try to get away from the train, not knowing did it explodes, did it catch fire? >> no, there were people on my side that were putting pressure on their head, where they were bleeding. i heard some screams. they're part of it, so i climbed over there, and one guy couldn't feel anything, so i -- my heart goes out to him. and i hope he's not paralyzed, the other guy was bleeding, a little delirious. he grabbed him, said, it's going to be okay, at that point you could hear some sirens, the first responders are coming, you got to relax, got to sit down. once he had that stabilized, he had a lot of ...

Was made for that amtrak train headed northbound. we will take you now north along those tracks. you can see how slowly that train is going. this track as it winds its way west out of the city along the river here this is where the tracks make their first big turn. the train tracks continue in this direction. and this thoroughfare of track cuts through -- basically runs right through north philly. we are now here coming up at the turn where the train derailed. probably what? three miles or so from 30th street station. we're still in the city boundaries of philadelphia. we're still in philly.