They thundered across the country like moving cities—mile-long steel convoys packed with elephants, acrobats, and entire worlds of wonder. Then, almost overnight, they vanished. This is the forgotten ...
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The mile-long trains that moved a city
This video tells the story of the massive circus trains that once crossed America. These mile-long trains carried performers, animals, and entire communities. They turned entertainment into a moving ...
In the early morning hours of May 30, 1893, Engineer “Red” Cresswell attempted to bring Walter L. Main’s circus train—full of exotic animals, expert performers, employees, equipment, and Main ...
VAIL -- Local historian Susan O'Brien recited a mountain of facts Wednesday during a service commemorating the 1893 Walter L. Main Circus Train wreck just outside Tyrone. O'Brien, who has made about ...
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 left five others unscathed, according to the N.C. Department of ...
During the early hours of June 22, 1918, a locomotive with a sleeping engineer at its controls plowed into the back of a circus train near Gary, Ind., smashing through cars filled with sleeping ...
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Fire heavily damaged several former circus train cars that the N.C. Department of Transportation was storing in the woods in Nash County. Nash County Sheriff's Office Fire broke out Thursday on a ...
Tucked away in the woods of Nash County is the last place you'd expect to find nine old railroad cars from the 1960s Barnum & Bailey circus. Sadly, the vacant train caught fire on Thursday morning – ...
SPRING HOPE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A decommissioned train car previously owned by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus caught fire near Spring Hope on Thursday morning. The nine train cars were sitting ...
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 ...
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