At the crack of four ayem in Fort McDermitt near the Oregon border all the kids are roused from the arms of Morpheus to dress, dine and dash to the waiting school buses. But the bleary-eyed parents ...

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, ...

NASHUA – The Greatest Show on Earth was nothing more than an amusing distraction when it passed through the city Wednesday. A Ringling Bros. Circus freight train carrying animals and all sorts of gear ...

When the circus came to town in Great Falls a century ago, people paid attention. There were no radio broadcasts yet to distract them. When the circus arrived in the Electric City 60 years ago, before ...

A torch probably started the fire, investigators found out later, when one of the circus workers laid it down in the train car to play cards. The railroad car was already in flames when the engineer ...

Just before dawn on May 30, 1893, the Walter L. Main circus train carrying dozens of animals and performers ran off the tracks in an epic crash in central Pennsylvania. Five people, at least 50 horses ...

Whistle Music Ancr: Tracks Ahead. Brought to you by Kalmbach Publishing Company, producers of an online source for rail-related information, where you can discover model trains, toy trains, garden ...

Although Venice may lose one landmark associated with its days as the winter headquarters of the Ringling Brothers and Barney & Bailey Circus, it stands to gain another. The Venice Area Historical ...

I'm getting a lot of emails and messages on Facebook today and the last few days about this, so here's the latest on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train heading into Raleigh tonight. I ...

Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi didn’t have to run away to join the circus. She was born into it. Her parents, themselves circus performers, reared their troupe of children under big tops. Hernandez-DiStasi ...