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PERU, Ind. (AP) -- An old circus wagon built and housed in northern Indiana has been featured in an Illinois ceremony for a century-old train crash that killed 86 performers.
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He's built more than 150 circus wagons, 59 train cars, tickets booths, concessions stands -- all by hand, and all in exacting detail.
Within 12 hours of its last performance tonight, the 60 cars of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train will be loaded, joined together, hooked to two locomotives and on their way to ...
What that meant was that Trowill’s toy trains could become circus trains, like those that pulled into Wilmington. All he had to do was put in thousands of hours assembling, painting and arranging the ...
When Circus World announced last month that it would be the new home of Ringling’s former Blue Unit clown car no. 189, stock car no. 63006 and a flat car with four wagons, the co-owner of the Al.
The Illiana Garden Railway Society is bringing a bit of the big top to Valparaiso. Circus Train Day takes place June 6 at 295 N. Indiana 2. Although a smaller version of an American tradition, some… ...
It’s filled with — you guessed it — circus wagons just waiting for the Imagineers to explore. “We climbed through every circus wagon there,” Beatty added.
She purchased 12 lots, primarily circus wagons and animals. She said she later wished she had bought more. "Just seeing it again I thought 'I had to have this,'" she said.
Aboard the train, ringmaster Bell and the clowns -- volunteers from the Essex Steam Train -- will entertain passengers during the roughly 15-minute trip to the Big Top at the Essex station grounds.