Some passenger cars of the COLE BROS. CIRCUS train.
The Blue Unit Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus train passes through Surveyor on its final run to Charleston for the next to last set of shows ever.
Blue Unit Farewell Tour The Ringling Brothers blue unit circus train heads west out of Oak Island Yard in Newark behind four CSX units. The train does not have far to go, as the next ... (more)
With word now official (Feb. 2017) that rolling stock from both the red and blue units of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus trains will soon be auctioned off, a look back through th... (more)
RoadRailer NS Train 267 makes its way down the KCT North-South Corridor on Track 81 as BNSF Train BNSF Train J KCMSXR1 14A, the Ringling Bros. circus train, doubles up in BNSF Kemper yard. This N... (more)
I'd often wondered how the large Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus) in the circus made it through the doors of the former baggage cars converted to elephant cars on the Ringling Bro... (more)
My first ever catch James E Strates Shows train! This train now no longer runs with the old passenger cars and with the circus ending, will become the last show hauled by rail.
My favorite circus train has always been the James E. Strates Shows train, mainly because it is always so colorful. During the 1970s, it always seemed that they managed to make their trips across... (more)
Unloading elephants from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus train.
The show horses are loaded into their car at Channel 3 Drive downtown.
The Ringling Bros Red Unit Circus holds at McIvor on the ex-SOU mainline, awaiting a crew to take the train west to Roanoke.
There's no place like home aboard the circus train as it sits in R.J. Corman's Lexington, KY yard.
Ringling Brothers Circus flat car as part of the consist east towards Baltimore.
Ringling Brothers Circus Train takes the signal at Maple Ave east towards the Old Main Line for Baltimore.
All the comforts of home as "The Greatest Show on Earth" plays in Memphis for the next four days.
