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 ...

When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus shut down in 2017 it donated or sold off the railroad cars that made up the two, mile-long trains that carried performers, animals and equipment to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SPRING HOPE, N.C. (WITN) - Abandoned train cars that are on fire in Nash County once belonged to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily Circus. Several fire departments are on scene this morning on ...

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PITTSFIELD — Just checking in on Jack Trowill, the man who, for decades, would travel over hill and dale with his projector, his slides, his notes and his memories. He’d be at the beck and call of any ...