Ok I'm not so sure about this , I live in that town , but I hear about this story of a bus of children that died cause thier school bus got stuck on the train tracks and they died. Supposeably if you set your car in the middle of the track and in Neutral the ghosts of the children all appear and attempt to push you out of the way and its wierd cause you put flour on the back of your car and you proceed to do what I just spoke of when you somehow get pushed you see the little hand prints in the flour of a child.

I personally I haven't seen if this is ture but a good friend of mine said yeah he tried it and if I wanted to go see he would take me and he would buy the flower so I will let you know whats up k.

But if someone knows about the story a little more than I do please shed some light on it for me, cause no on really knows details about the story.

I'd like to try this on ANY set of railroad tracks. Just to see what occurs.....of course, that's hard to do in my city, b/c the RR tracks are so populated with traffic.

Go do it and take photos for us. I could do stuff like that easily where I live... unfortunately, our train tracks aren't haunted.

I saw that on the episode of the unexplained on the Sci/fi channel,there were actually small hand prints of
little children on the trunk of the car after they had pushed the car to safty.There were no children involved
in the filming of that episode.nobody touched the car and it was actually pushed. sandblaster2053

This ghost story is not specific to Laredo... I've heard it before. It's a generic ghost story...

I dare you to wait until a train is actually coming and then try it... I bet the children would be motivated to push you out of the way faster!

Theres a story like this in every state. . .or something similar. Cars rolling across bridges by themselves, train tracks, and up hills. . .alot of them have similar stories, about the school bus full of children. I've always been intrigued by them. I used to live near Laredo, but not any more. I remember my dad telling me about this when I was discussing another such place near where I lived in NC. There's another similar story here in Alabama, and I've heard the same story from other places to. One of my friends tried it in NC, and he swore that it worked. I would just assume that if it REALLY happened in so many places, then there must be some other explanation. Surely that many school buses haven't been hit by trains. .or run off of bridges. . . either that, or it doesn't really work and my friend was just crazy. . .which doesn't sound too hard to believe. . .because he was a bit. ..er. . . "off"

The legend of the children pushing your car across the tracks is actually the famous San Antonio story.
However,down in the Rio Grande Valley area,there was a bus accident in the 1980s to 2000 period,where a school bus with some high school kids on board were hit either by a train or a semi truck trailer and several kids did die. It was on the local San Antonio TV stations at the time,but i can't recall the name of the town,could have been near Laredo.

but now it seems everyone has this story,though the first time i have heard it is of course our story here.It has been on various shows.
On one show,they spoke to both the archivest for the San Antonio Public Library and the San Antonio Police Department.Both groups said they can find no record of a school bus being invovled in a wreck with a train during the 1930s or 40s,supposedly when the incident took place in San Antonio.
The book,Weird Texas has something on this and the Donkey lady and other urban legends of San Antonio and Texas.

Snopes is such a marvelous site:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/handprint.asp