(The following story by Dan Galindo appeared on the Journal Reporter website on October 28.)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — No one was injured in an incident in which a school bus was stranded briefly on railroad tracks this afternoon, a Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools spokesman said.
About 3, the transmission on bus 38 from Kernersville Elementary school gave out while the bus was on railroad tracks at the intersection of Walkertown-Guthrie Road and West Mountain Street, said Theo Helm, the spokesman.
School officials called Norfolk Southern and told them about the bus, Helm said. The nearest train was five miles away.
There were 25 children on the bus, Helm said. They were transferred to another bus and the broken-down bus towed away by the time the train passed.
A separate wreck happened after the bus incident and had slowed traffic in the area. Details of that wreck were not immediately available.