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Train the entire way. Correct. Thats correct. The reporter eyes on the run away redline train that took off unmanned from the braintree station thursday morning. The dispatchers along the nine minute duration of this particular incidents made the decision to clear any and all northbound trains that were along the braintree branch. We went inside the mbtas command center with c. O. O. , he said dispatchers decided within minutes to direct all lead trains to keep on going, making no stops until they passed the j. F. K. Station. The next nearest train had only a tenminute lead time. However, the fact that this train was not making any station stops had the decision been made to, by the dispatcher to not express those change, that window would have diminished. At the same time the control center sequentially killed power to the third rail, ultimately halting the run away train at j. F. K. The operator identified by sources as David Vasquez ....