The last of the train cars have been sold, five years after the N.C. Department of Transportation bought them from the circus and seven months after they caught fire on a remote track in Nash County.

Circus cars were long. Before the train left Summit at Sandy Ridge for the trip down the mountain on the Tyrone-Clearfield Branch Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the conductor called S.S. Blair ...

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 ...

DENVER, Col., Aug. 29.--A dispatch from Greeley to the News says: "The burning of a circus car, nine miles north of Greeley, was attended with indescribable horrors.

In 1882, Peru, Indiana-based horse trader and animal trainer Benjamin Wallace attended the bankruptcy sale of the W.C. Coup ...

The tragic circus train wreck of 1915 in Georgia killed performers & left urban legends, ghosts & strange occurrences @ Riverdale Cemetery.

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 ...