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PHOTOS: Close-Up of Train Derailment Aftermath

One local made his way into the middle of the Ellicott City train derailment. And took pictures.

Sergio Marino said he was in parking lot B just a half hour before a train derailment filled the lot with coal. But his friends called to have him hang out at parking lot D, he said, behind the Howard County Welcome Center. 

"I didn't hear anything," he said of a . "I just heard sirens and figured it was an accident." 

Elizabeth Conway Nass and Rose Mayr, both 19, of Ellicott City, died on the tracks in the incident, Howard County Police Spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said Tuesday.

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When a friend called Marino in the morning and told him what happened, "I figured I'd check it out," the Ellicott City resident said, sitting at a park bench next to the Tiber river tribuatary on Main Street.

So Marino got on his bike and got closer than most reporters to the destruction in parking lot B. 

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"I'm good at this area," he said.

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