Cameras on WOH lines
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TDowling
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Cameras on WOH lines
Metro North has decided to equip its comet fleet for Port Jervis and Pascack Valley line service with non-audio cameras: while we have yet to see all of the 65 cars installed with them, Im wondering if this "test run" will spur the agency to install surveillance in trains on both sides of the river?
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Traingeek3629
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Re: Cameras on WOH lines
They've already got cameras on the M8s for sure (I rode one last weekend with a cam) and today I will ride an M7 and Shoreliner on my way to the Yankee game today, so I'll let you know if I see cameras on the other trains I rode.
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Chrisgr
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Re: Cameras on WOH lines
M7s do have cameras. Not sure if they are all equipped with them.
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truck6018
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Re: Cameras on WOH lines
Most (if not all) M7's have them. Most M3's and many cab cars and Genny loco's
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DutchRailnut
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Re: Cameras on WOH lines
not sure what conversation is about , all US commuter and passenger railroads are mandated by Congress to install both out facing and in facing camera's . the railroads since hard disks have huge capacities added in facing camera's in passenger compartments.
the M-8's for example have wiring and recording capacity of 9 channels per car.
the M-8's for example have wiring and recording capacity of 9 channels per car.
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daybeers
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Re: Cameras on WOH lines
I work in IT, so I'm interested: do you know what kind of resolution these cameras are and/or how much data one train creates?DutchRailnut wrote:not sure what conversation is about , all US commuter and passenger railroads are mandated by Congress to install both out facing and in facing camera's . the railroads since hard disks have huge capacities added in facing camera's in passenger compartments.
the M-8's for example have wiring and recording capacity of 9 channels per car.
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DutchRailnut
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Re: Cameras on WOH lines
believe they are all 1080P not sure of data use but each camera records for over 48 hours before overwriting previous files .
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Kilgore Trout
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Re: Cameras on WOH lines
Let's assume each camera records H.264 at 10 Mbit/sec, which would provide a tolerable image quality at 1080p (I have no idea if that's actually what a typical surveillance camera would record, but this makes the math easy). That's 1.25 Mb/sec, or 75 Mb/minute.
48*60 = 2880 minutes.
2880 minutes * 75 Mb/minute = 216000 Mb, or 210.94 Gb per camera, for 48 hours.
Multiply that by 9 cameras and you have 1893.44 Gb (1.85 Tb) for the entire system.
48*60 = 2880 minutes.
2880 minutes * 75 Mb/minute = 216000 Mb, or 210.94 Gb per camera, for 48 hours.
Multiply that by 9 cameras and you have 1893.44 Gb (1.85 Tb) for the entire system.
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RearOfSignal
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Re: Cameras on WOH lines
The video is 720p in the interior cameras. The front facing I believe is 1080p.
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