Early this week, a mile-long line of silvery circus cars screeched to a stop in the railyard near the Midtown Tunnel. In the sweet spot at the front of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ...

Prior to commencing the column at hand, we're trying something new, and beginning, rather than concluding the column with, "Have a nice week, and God bless America." There, now try leaving that one on ...

The idea for piggybacking — hauling truck trailers on flatbed train cars — might have been spawned in the late 1800s with the circus trains that crisscrossed the country. Some of the flatbed cars on ...