Runaway train stemmed from ‘multiple errors,’ Baker says

BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker and top transit officials blamed "multiple errors" by the operator of a Red Line train which rolled out of the Braintree station early Thursday with some 50 passengers aboard and no driver. Two brakes had been disengaged and a throttle-like device may have been blocked from working properly to hold the train in place, they said. "We are confident that this was an isolated incident where a single individual appears to have made multiple errors," Baker told reporters F

BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker and top transit officials blamed "multiple errors" by the operator of a Red Line train which rolled out of the Braintree station early Thursday with some 50 passengers aboard and no driver. Two brakes had been disengaged and a throttle-like device may have been blocked from working properly to hold the train in place, they said. "We are confident that this was an isolated incident where a single individual appears to have made multiple errors," Baker told reporters F…