The Associated Press is reporting Amtrak said Tue., May 26, it will install video cameras inside locomotive cabs to record the actions of train engineers. The move follows a deadly derailment earlier this month outside of Philadelphia in which investigators are searching for clues to the train engineer’s actions before the crash. The train was equipped with a black box data recorder and an outward-facing camera focused on the track ahead. Neither of those devices revealed what was happening inside the cab. The National Transportation Safety Board has been recommending that the Federal Railroad Administration require passenger and freight train cabs to have audio recorders since the late 1990s. They revised that recommendation five years ago to include inward-facing sound and video recorders. Unions representing engineers at Amtrak and other passenger and freight railroads have generally opposed use of the cameras. Cameras will first be installed in 70 new Amtrak locomotives that will power all Northeast Regional and long-distance trains between Washington, New York and Boston, as well as Keystone Service between New York, Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Most of those locomotives will be equipped with the cameras before the end of the year, and the rest by spring of 2016. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.