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.

As great rail trips go, the Orient Express had nothing on the Ringling circus train.

A circus train chugging toward Orlando for weekend shows derailed Thursday morning, killing two workers, including a star elephant trainer and a woman who worked as a clown. Fourteen other employee… ...

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 ...

With a more than $3 million restoration now complete, the 1385 steam locomotive has begun its journey from rural Dane County ...

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 ...

The museum – housed in a former sleeper car once used by the circus – was rehabilitated by the Venice Area Historical Society over the past decade.

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. For Miser, following in her ...

Ringling last rolled into Birmingham in 2017 on its classic mile-long circus train that traditionally housed elephants, performers, crew members and their families.

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. For Miser, following in her ...

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 ...