suggesting the addition of a second locomotive to assist with braking, according to O’Brien and “The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1893” by Fred E. Long, which was included in a booklet ...

On a quiet May morning in Marietta 110 years ago, the first of five trains made their way from Zanesville to Marietta as the ...

Normally en route by midnight, Main’s circus was so delayed that by the time the engineers inspected the train at Summit, it was already 3 a.m. Cresswell, engineer of the locomotive tasked with ...

and Barnum & Bailey circus cars—combine parlor-style seating with large ... It was last in service to provide steam for a stranded passenger train in Fort Wayne that following winter, making it the ...