None of the 60 circus animals, including lions, tigers and elephants, was hurt. They were traveling in cages at the front and rear of the 53-car train, which broke in the middle.

While 17-car coal trains could manage the steep mountainside with just one locomotive, many of the 17 cars on the Walter L. Main circus train were twice as long as the average coal car.

Just make sure you ride in the monkey car on the Casey Jr. Circus Train. The small train has two animal cars, one for those who want to be a monkey and another for “wild animals.” There are ...

While 17-car coal trains could manage the steep mountainside with just one locomotive, many of the 17 cars on the Walter L. Main circus train were twice as long as the average coal car.

But it took a lot of train cars to transport those animals and the human performers from town to town, and trains have dedicated enthusiasts just as animals do. The first of 20 of those circus ...

VAHS, which has donated the Circus Train Car Museum to Sarasota County, maintains and operates the museum, which sits on tracks put in place when the Historic Venice Train Depot was restored in 2003.

The result was a spectacle in the best DeMille tradition. For six weeks, Paramount hirelings bought and built a circus train with two animal cars, two circus flat cars, two Pullmans, a job lot of ...

The circus train was 17 cars long — 13 of which were stock and flat ... O’Brien disclosed that her home is built partially on the site where the animals killed in the train wreck are buried.

Circus cars were long. Before the train left Summit at Sandy Ridge for the trip down the mountain on the Tyrone-Clearfield Branch Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the conductor called S.S. Blair ...

NCDOT bought nine railroad cars from the circus as it was shutting down in 2017 with hopes of refurbishing them and using them on the Piedmont, the state-owned passenger train that runs between ...