The saga of the former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars stashed in the North Carolina woods has come to an end. The last of the train cars have been sold, five years after the ...

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, thinking it would one day refurbish them and use them on the Piedmont passenger train between Raleigh and Charlotte. Now NCDOT has put the cars up for sale, along with ...

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 ...

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 ...

and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The Pie Car is the traditional name of the dining car of the circus train. Loory is with the blue unit, which starts performances Thursday (June 18) at the Smoothie ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...