Every night, we circus folk left the show grounds and made our way, still drenched in adrenaline, to the railroad yards. There was usually an atmosphere of exhilaration—that and a sense of ...

With the closure of the Frontierland station and the Walt Disney World Railroad operating in shuttle mode, we decided to take ...

A circus train chugging toward Orlando for weekend shows derailed Thursday morning, killing two workers, including a star elephant trainer and a woman who worked as a clown. Fourteen other ...

The Walt Disney World Railroad has begun its "shuttle mode" operations due to the upcoming expansion of Frontierland.

With a more than $3 million restoration now complete, the 1385 steam locomotive has begun its journey from rural Dane County ...

The circus was stranded in Tyrone for a week while the train cars were being fixed at the nearby railroad shop in Altoona. (Despite the horrible accident, the show did go on.) ...

CINCINNATI, Sept. 9.--At 2:30 o'clock this morning a train containing John Robinson's circus, while stopping to take water at Corwin station on the Little Miami Railroad, 51 miles from this city ...

Circus cars were long. Before the train left Summit at Sandy Ridge for the trip down the mountain on the Tyrone-Clearfield Branch Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the conductor called S.S. Blair ...

On June 22, 1918, an empty train slammed into a group of train cars belonging to the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus in northwest Indiana. Today, it’s considered one of the worst train crashes in U.S ...

Robinson’s Circus set up in Watsonville Aug. 22, 1882, but the coast rail line up to Santa Cruz was narrow-gauge and had a bridge down from a Jan. 26, 1881 storm.