Amtrak to install cameras to monitor train engineers after crash

TOO FAST: The northbound train involved in the May 12 derailment accelerated to 106 miles per hour (171 kilometers per hour) from 70 mph (113 kph) in the minute before the crash, which occurred on a sharp curve.

Amtrak plans to install video cameras to monitor the engineers of locomotives on its heavily travelled routes in the north-eastern United States following a deadly derailment, the nation's largest passenger rail service said. 

The move to add cockpit cameras in trains on the Northeast Corridor line by the year's end follows a derailment outside Philadelphia that killed eight people and injured about 200.