The state has found buyers for two former circus train cars that survived a fire that destroyed four others in March. The two cars were sold through the state’s surplus property website to companies ...
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. The caravan was ...
Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...
On this night 130 years ago, Aug. 22, 1889, Barnum and Bailey’s Circus made an unexpected stop in Potsdam. Three circus trains were traveling from Gouverneur, where the circus had performed that ...
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 ...
A couple years ago, radio host Chris Nolte from our Northwest Indiana Lakeshore Public Media NPR, asked me to be a guest on his lunchtime broadcast of his show “Regionally Speaking” on 89.1 FM to talk ...
Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...
The fire that broke out on a string of former circus train cars in Nash County last week burned four of the cars beyond repair and left five others unscathed, according to the N.C. Department of ...
PITTSFIELD — Just checking in on Jack Trowill, the man who, for decades, would travel over hill and dale with his projector, his slides, his notes and his memories. He’d be at the beck and call of any ...