According to information provided by the Strates, the family-owned company employed the last show train on American rails beginning in 2017 when Ringling Brothers, Barnum, and Bailey Circus closed ...

The Kidland area at the fair also has two new additions this year: the family friendly Circus Train and Tea Cups spinner — which is making its nostalgic return. “The tea cups were brought back ...

The circus at the fair, inside in recent years, will be outside this anniverary year - under a big top tent. Check out this preview of activities connected with York Fair 250.

Selena Bartell, 4, of Hamburg hugs Fair Bear on Thursday as the James E. Strates Shows train arrives for the Erie County Fair in Hamburg for the last time. Derek Gee/Buffalo News ...

It’s a tradition decades in the making. The James E. Strates Fair Train pulled into Hamburg Wednesday morning, signalling we’re just one week away from the start of the Erie County Fair… ...

DECATUR - David Traxler said the module set up for the upcoming train fair will be 14 by 60 feet, dating back from the 1950s to the present.

The tragic circus train wreck of 1915 in Georgia killed performers & left urban ... other fair patrons admit seeing a couple dressed in early 20th-Century clothing riding in an empty Ferris ...

HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — The band played, the cameras rolled, the pyrotechnics shot skyward, and a few tears were shed as the world’s last “fair train” rolled into the Village of Hamburg … ...