RUMOR has it that the camera’s had been installed six months ago...but there was a complicated wating period..as per the FCC.REGULATIONS...before they could be “activated”....
BS. These are new engines and this one is about a year old and came with an "event recorder" that included an outward facing camera. Comments I've read on Trainorders are unclear as to whether it has an inward facing camera.
Amtrak ACS-64 #601 undergoing speed/acceleration test, Pueblo, Co., August 2013..
From 0 to 125 mph pulling loaded 8-car train in 2 1/2 minutes.
The FCC issue was for electronic safety systems that could help prevent accidents (going too fast, wrong track, etc...). Not cameras.