Amtrak to Run Metrolink Commuter Trains

 

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Posted by: Scott Coppersmith

Los Angeles - Amtrak has agreed to run Metrolink commuter trains in Southern California, replacing the contractor involved in the Metrolink crash that killed 25 people last year.
The national train service announced Friday that it's reached a memorandum of understanding to provide Metrolink train crews beginning in July.
However, a final deal is still being worked out.
Metrolink considered hiring its own train crews or using outsiders to replace Connex Railroad LLC, which provided the engineer blamed for the crash in September 2008.
Metrolink has been critical of Connex after investigators found the engineer was text-messaging and ran a red light shortly before the Metrolink train hit a freight train.
Connex defended its safety record but announced earlier this year that it wouldn't extend its Metrolink contract.}