Benches, a pavilion and a new granite marker commemorating the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck of 1893 were dedicated ...

and local officials turned out recently to celebrate the new Circus Train Car Museum with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The museum – housed in a former sleeper car once used by the circus and ...

WILLISTON, Fla. (AP) - When Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed last year, much of the focus was on the future of the many animals used in the show and whether they would be sent to ...

On a peaceful early fall evening in 1884, hundreds of local residents flocked to see the Orion circus, reveling in ... At daylight. a flat car bore the deceased into Greeley for burial.

Even now, 130 years later, “(we’re) still part of it,” Jim said. Circus cars were long Before the train left Summit at Sandy Ridge for the trip down the mountain on the Tyrone-Clearfield ...

For six weeks, Paramount hirelings bought and built a circus train with two animal cars, two circus flat cars, two Pullmans, a job lot of animal cages, and hundreds of feet of tracks. Then a ...

A fire broke out Thursday morning at a set of decommissioned Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars that have remained parked on a rail line in a wooded area northeast of Spring Hope.

The first car to go off the rails held the elephants. The tigers, lions, horses, crocodiles, pythons and a gorilla known as the "Man-Slayer" followed as the Walter L. Main circus train careened ...

and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars. Mar. 14—RALEIGH — The fire that broke out on a string of former circus train cars in Nash County last week burned four of the cars beyond repair and ...

and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 2017 for $383,000. It planned to have the cars refurbished and used on the Piedmont, the passenger train that makes three round-trips a day between Raleigh and Charlotte.