Each year, from 1927 until the early ’90s, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train could be counted on to bring the greatest show on earth to towns all across America. The caravan was ...

Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...

Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...

NASHUA – The Greatest Show on Earth was nothing more than an amusing distraction when it passed through the city Wednesday. A Ringling Bros. Circus freight train carrying animals and all sorts of gear ...

When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus shut down in 2017 it donated or sold off the railroad cars that made up the two, mile-long trains that carried performers, animals and equipment to ...

Whistle Music Ancr: Tracks Ahead. Brought to you by Kalmbach Publishing Company, producers of an online source for rail-related information, where you can discover model trains, toy trains, garden ...

On this night 130 years ago, Aug. 22, 1889, Barnum and Bailey’s Circus made an unexpected stop in Potsdam. Three circus trains were traveling from Gouverneur, where the circus had performed that ...

SPRING HOPE — A set of decommissioned Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars damaged in a Thursday fire in Nash County were being stored on a spur line and awaiting sale at auction. A ...

In the early morning hours of June 22, 1918, the second of two Hagenback-Wallace Circus trains was headed to Hammond from Michigan City when was rear-ended, as it was stopped to check a hot box on a ...

The state has found buyers for two former circus train cars that survived a fire that destroyed four others in March. The two cars were sold through the state’s surplus property website to companies ...