The National Transportation Safety Board will call into question on Tuesday the lack of safety equipment and staffing levels aboard the nation’s trains, as the agency marks the one year anniversary of the deadly Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia.
The safety board is set to release a series of recommendations, including one that will mandate all trains should include fail-safe equipment to stop speeding trains — even it’s not state-of-the-art, GPS-based technology known as Positive Train Control (PTC).
“Recommend all railroads install an aide in the locomotives where PTC will not be installed that would help crew members identify speed limits,” according to NTSB recommendations obtained by The Post.
The NTSB also said the Federal Railroad Administration should also “collect and analyze 2 man-crew requirements” on trains.
Eight people were killed and more than 200 injured when an Amtrak jumped off rails when it hit a 50 mph curve at 106 mph on May 12 of last year.



