commuter train

* Video from CBSN * Runaway train is apparently not just a song title. Yesterday (December 10th) a six-car Boston commuter train carrying 50 passengers left a station and traveled through four stops with no one behind the controls before transit officials caught on and stopped it...

Commuters will be able to donate blood on a train in Boston to benefit local hospital patients. Organizers say the train will be stopped at South Station for the Oct 24 event. The Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company, which operates rail tracks under an MBTA contract, says the event will have a Halloween theme...