Q — I am trying to determine the value of an American Flyer circus train. The train is completely original. The engine is No. 357. I have searched the Internet, contacted Lionel, and purchased train ...

RECENT Memories have been discussing circus trains of the 1950s, and Richard Barber of the JW Armstrong Trust has very kindly sent in this superb picture of Bertram Mills’ circus in the goods yard at ...

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 N.C.

The idea for piggybacking — hauling truck trailers on flatbed train cars — might have been spawned in the late 1800s with the circus trains that crisscrossed the country. Some of the flatbed cars on ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...