FAIRVIEW, Ore. -- One person was killed after getting hit by a train in the Fairview area early Friday morning but investigators said his friend survived.

The accident happened around 2:30 a.m. near NE 203rd or 204th Avenue. A train engineer told investigators that he saw two people on the train tracks and he tried to warn them to get off. He said it looked like one man was lying on the tracks and the other man was trying to pull him off.

The dead man was identified as 18-year old Zachary Allen Janson. The second victim was identified as 19-year-old Nicholas Andrew Sanders, both of Gresham.

The train was traveling at 45 miles an hour and the operator was not able to stop. The engineer said he thought it hit both men.

Early Friday morning, investigators found one body, described only as an 18-year-old man from Fairview, along the tracks. Police said the two men had been drinking before the terrible accident.

Officials said Sanders walked into the police department late Friday morning and told officers he heard they had been looking for him. Authorities said he was taken to a local hospital for treatment of a leg injury that was not life-threatening.

Gresham fire crews helped in the initial search by using thermal imaging equipment and the East County vehicular crash team reconstructed the accident scene to try and reveal more clues, according to Sgt. Bernie Meyer with the Fairview Police Department.

The train was en route from Portland to Chicago, transporting cargo boxes from Asia on 87 freight cars, authorities said.