Circus World Executive Director Scott O’Donnell said the Baraboo museum acquired the train cars through an online auction after Ringling announced it would close. Thanks to several donors, O ...

The museum – housed in a former sleeper car once used by the circus – was rehabilitated by the Venice Area Historical Society over the past decade.

Fire destroyed four of nine former circus railroad cars that NCDOT stored on tracks near Spring Hope in Nash County; the five undamaged cars will be sold.

The train cars — 16 coaches and four flat cars — were on tracks next to Kirby property. Two mobile cranes hoisted them up and put them down on new Kirby rails.

Two former Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars owned by the NC Department of Transportation were sold via online auction to two tourist railroads.

But in those days, railroads charged private companies by the car, not by the length of the car or by weight. The circus train was 17 cars long — 13 of which were stock and flat cars.

The train cars — 16 coaches and four flat cars — were on tracks next to Kirby property. Two mobile cranes hoisted them up and put them down on new Kirby rails.

On May 22, 2017, after 146 years, the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus folded its tent for the last time after a final show at Long Island’s Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and passed into ...

At daylight. a flat car bore the deceased into Greeley for burial. The bodies were all put into the same large coffin; a Presbyterian minister conducted services at the gravesite.

Fire destroyed four of nine former circus railroad cars that NCDOT stored on tracks near Spring Hope in Nash County; the five undamaged cars will be sold.