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Emergency crews can view floor plans from diagrams and photos and are used to dealing with a jumbled mess in many types of disasters and working their way through to every nook and cranny; layouts aren’t a huge consideration. Once they’re in a compartment they’ll either be right beside a patient, or not, and if they see another door they’ll open it. Hands-on training is generally more valuable for becoming familiar with mechanical systems, chocking to prevent rolling, support points for jacks and hydraulic airbags, how to open windows and doors, moving simulated victims through doorways, where to make cuts to tip sections away from each other, how to access egress routes when the train car is upright, on its side, on its roof, down an embankment, etc. Any fire/rescue agency with train tracks in its vicinity will likely have a partnership with that rail operator and dispatchers can coordinate any necessary information exchange.