On this night 130 years ago, Aug. 22, 1889, Barnum and Bailey’s Circus made an unexpected stop in Potsdam. Three circus trains were traveling from Gouverneur, where the circus had performed that ...
BARABOO — A miniature model will help Circus World Museum visitors appreciate the grand scale of the old Ringling Bros. circus train. Model train builder and circus fan Joe Kaspar has donated to ...
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Community members get to enjoy a train model exhibit put on by the Standard Gauge Module Association at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Library this holiday season. The local ...
VENICE — Retired circus performers, owners of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and local officials turned out recently to celebrate the new Circus Train Car Museum with a ribbon-cutting ...
In America at the turn of the 20th century, circuses traveled by train. They stopped in small towns, unloaded the cars, and set up tents. Inside, humans and animals were dispatched to delight and ...
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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Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...
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