Refugees from commuter-rail train in desperate escape bid

This account of a Worcester Line train stuck in Newton for an hour yesterday reminds one of last fall's Great Escape on the Red Line. And then there's this:

... One of the conductors on the 527 was telling some of the refugees (and I was overhearing) the real reason the 519 stopped suddenly: the engineer ran a red flag, which is a no-no anytime but especially recently, with the scandals that have been plaguing train systems, here to California, with distracted engineers at the controls.