The train essentially piled up to the level of the tracks, Zitzler said, and the last few cars, where most of the circus performers rode, didn't go off the rails.

Each year, from 1927 until the early ’90s, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train could be counted on to bring the greatest show on earth to towns all across America.

VAHS, which has donated the Circus Train Car Museum to Sarasota County, maintains and operates the museum, which sits on tracks put in place when the Historic Venice Train Depot was restored in 2003.

VAIL – Benches, a pavilion and a new granite marker commemorating the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck of 1893 were dedicated during a brief ceremony Wednesday morning in the small village of ...

The Ringling Brothers circus shut down in 2017, but made a comeback in 2023. Skyler signed her contract in an old Ringling train car that her parents had bought when they closed. "It was so ...

In the early morning of June 22, 1918, a train wreck in Hammond left hundreds injured or dead. The collision is the focus of 'The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918,' written by Richard M. Lytle.

Skyler Miser was born on a circus train. Now, she soars through the air nightly as the “Human Rocket” in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey’s circus.

A Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus elephant steps out of a train car after arriving in Carlstadt on March 6, 2007. It was an unusual sight, but a routine for the circus as this was how ...