PERU – Although there were no injuries or property damage when a tractor-trailer truck got stuck on the railroad tracks in Peru Tuesday night, the driver was left embarrassed.

An empty 18-wheeler registered to CRST out of Illinois apparently took a wrong turn off Route 108 on its way to NewPage Corp. paper mill in Rumford, said Dave Hodgson, a reserve Dixfield police officer who was in his other role as owner of MT Pockets during Tuesday night’s incident.

“He tried to turn around near the legion hall and got hung up on the tracks. With all the snow, he couldn’t see them,” said Hodgson, who added that the driver was embarrassed about the whole affair.

The truck was off the road so traffic was not impeded.

Dixfield police officer Jeff Howe apparently called the railroad company when he discovered the stuck truck to ask it to stop the train, which was coming toward the railroad intersection with the road that leads to the Mexico/Peru bridge.

Hodgson, who also has a tow business in Dixfield, pulled the tractor-trailer back onto the road. The truck owner was guided across the Peru/Mexico bridge and onto the paper mill property.

Neither the truck nor the tracks were damaged.