Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey is America’s longest-running circus company. It began performances in the early 1890s. More than a century later, the company maintains many of the traditions of ...

The Canadian author’s debut novel, about a circus troupe travelling by steam train across war-torn Europe, is a vivid, uplifting page-turner In her impeccably researched debut, which opens in 1938, ...

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 ...

The famous Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train passed through Salisbury on Monday on its way to Asheville. The mile-long train has 61 cars carrying the entire circus except for the ...

At the crack of four ayem in Fort McDermitt near the Oregon border all the kids are roused from the arms of Morpheus to dress, dine and dash to the waiting school buses. But the bleary-eyed parents ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...

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 ...

Shorewood's ghost train isn't what you think it is -- nope, not a real train. The light and sound version of the train travels nightly through the Oak Leaf Trail Bridge over Capitol Drive, at 9:00 and ...

Correction: The Ringling Bros. circus bought the car in 1978 for the Monte-Carlo circus. Later one of its bandleaders lived in the car for a year. An earlier version of the story combined those two ...