By Nick Gale, WLS News
(WASHINGTON, DC) Amtrak has announced that it will begin installing inward facing cameras aboard its locomotives following the fatal crash of Amtrak 188 two weeks ago.
The first cameras will be installed aboard the regional trains that service the Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston corridor, as well as along the Keystone lines into Pennsylvania.
Although a time-line hasn’t been released, Amtrak is developing a plan to install those cameras on all of its locomotives. That would include routes that start, end or go through Chicago like the California Zephyr, the Texas Eagle, the Empire Builder and others.
Amtrak says it already has outward-facing cameras along with advanced systems that monitor locomotive and engineer actions.
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