In heavy rain, employees of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus started the task of packing up all the circus’s equipment in preparation to finally leave Scranton after its extended ...
Each year, from 1927 until the early ’90s, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train could be counted on to bring the greatest show on earth to towns all across America. The caravan was ...
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 ...
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 ...
GARY — History buffs listened to speeches amid the train horns Friday morning as they commemorated the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train wreck that claimed 86 lives. “This is where history, the love of ...
Whistle Music Ancr: Tracks Ahead. Brought to you by Kalmbach Publishing Company, producers of an online source for rail-related information, where you can discover model trains, toy trains, garden ...
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 ...
The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered one of the worst train wrecks in history in 1918, with more than 100 people injured and 86 killed. Wikimedia Commons The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wasn’t the ...
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 ...