In heavy rain, employees of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus started the task of packing up all the circus’s equipment in preparation to finally leave Scranton after its extended ...

SPRING HOPE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A decommissioned train car previously owned by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus caught fire near Spring Hope on Thursday morning. The nine train cars were sitting ...

Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus arrived in the morning in Scranton for two scheduled performances later in the day. The train cars, which carried over 1,000 circus employees, herds of ...

For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...

When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus shut down in 2017 it donated or sold off the railroad cars that made up the two, mile-long trains that carried performers, animals and equipment to ...

PITTSFIELD — Just checking in on Jack Trowill, the man who, for decades, would travel over hill and dale with his projector, his slides, his notes and his memories. He’d be at the beck and call of any ...

At one point in American history, the circus didn’t just come to town—it rumbled in like a thunderstorm on steel wheels. These mile-long trains carried everything: elephants, big tops, lion cages, and ...

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On this night 130 years ago, Aug. 22, 1889, Barnum and Bailey’s Circus made an unexpected stop in Potsdam. Three circus trains were traveling from Gouverneur, where the circus had performed that ...