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The Jan. 13, 1994, wreck is likely the most notorious in Polk County history. In fact, there are many in this county who still remember the circus train wreck, even though it's now been 17 years.
To see the 844, train fan traveling nearly 2,000 miles from Ohio to Idaho By Anna Webb. [email protected]. Updated April 22, 2017 9:45 PM.
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.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 9.--At 2:30 o'clock this morning a train containing John Robinson's circus, while stopping to take water at Corwin station on the Little Miami Railroad, 51 miles from this city ...
VAIL — Local historian Susan O’Brien recited a mountain of facts Wednesday during a service commemorating the 1893 Walter L. Main Circus Train wreck just outside Tyrone. O’Brien, who has ...
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 ...