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 ...

A miniature model will help Circus World Museum visitors appreciate the grand scale of the old Ringling Bros. circus train. Model train builder and circus fan Joe Kaspar has donated to Circus World a ...

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 ...

Three years ago, the state Department of Transportation bought nine railroad cars from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, thinking it would one day refurbish them and use them on the ...