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The deadly amtrak crash here in philadelphia has put an emphasis back on train safety. considering the 10s of millions of people that travel every year, it's relatively safe but this crash is one of dozens that happen every year. >> reporter: tuesday's amtrak crash is just the latest in a string of horrifying accidents on u.s. rails. >> all of a sudden in a blink of an eye, i want from one side of the train to the other side of the train. >> reporter: on average, there v been 31 amtrak train derailments each year since 2006.

It's a project we as humans have been doing for over 100 years, right? >> without a doubt. it's evolved from train safety 100 years ago, where there were no signals, trains relied on their schedule, their schedule told them where they should be. if the schedule said, you weren't supposed to be there, then the train that was supposed to be there just assumed you weren't. now we have snams. and those signals help -- it's a big improvement. and then, of course, we're evolving into positive train control where we want train toes talk to one another. we want trains to talk to the track and tracks t...

And so to be honest with you, so -- but the lesson learned last night, yeah listen it was more clear where things were what we could have done. but at the end of the day, i was on the way. i knew i saw the emergency exit windows. i climbed up got it off and helped people get through it but, you know like in any situation, we were all pretty banged up but you've got to get through it and you've got to be there and you have to help people. it wasn't be every man for himself, you have to do it as a team, otherwise, you all perish. >> john does ntsb have any recommendations for train safety that y...

>> so -- and i mean again, this is a basic question. the engineer will know the route and know what those speeds are? >> yeah engineers go through very intensive training. locomotive engineers go through months and months of training where they have to learn every nook and cranny of the railroad. where every signal is every speed change is. where every spich is that they can change from track to track, they have to memorize this stuff. in some cases, we have signal systems that will alert the engineer when speeds change. so that they can reduce their speed, they get in on the alarming side of ...

Been doing for over 100 years, right? >> without a doubt. it's evolved from train safety 100 years ago, where there were no signals, trains relied on their schedule their schedule told them where they should be. if the schedule said you weren't 130ezed to be there, the train that was supposed to be there just assumed you weren't. >> now we have signals, and those signals help -- it's a big improvement, and then of course, we're evolving into positive train control, where we want trains to talk to one another. we want chains to talk to the track. >> i'm glad you brought that up. the ntsb if we ...