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School Bus
Tracks
One day, on their regular
route home from school, a school bus full of children was crossing
over the railroad tracks on their way to the next stop when
something went wrong and the bus stalled straddling the tracks. As
the driver struggled to restart the bus, the train alarm signal
started to sound and the children saw a speeding locomotive coming
quickly toward them. By the time the driver opened the doors and
evacuate the children, the train had arrived, and the children’s
screams were drowned out by the screaming whistle and brakes of the
deadly train. None of the children on the school bus survived that
horrible accident.
A few years later, a man
was driving down the same road and stalled on the tracks, in much
the same way as the bus full of children. Again, the driver
struggled as the alarm started to sound, the lights began to blink
and the guard bars lowered in front and behind the man’s passive
car. Just before impact, the driver could feel the train bearing
down on him. He ceased to struggle and squeezed his eyes shut,
anticipating the explosive collision. Suddenly it was as if time
stood still and everything became quiet. He felt his car somehow
move and it was as if he was being pushed to safety, guided off the
tracks by an unknown force. When he and his car were out of danger
from the oncoming train, suddenly sound and time came back to life
and the locomotive barreled past him, just inches from the bumper of
his vehicle.
To this day if you put
your car in neutral on those tracks and sprinkle some baby powder on
the back bumper of your car the children from the bus accident will
push you. your car to safety off of the railroad tracks where
they met their untimely fate. You will see small hand prints in the
powder of the ghosts of the poor children who died that day.
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