The Ligonier Valley Rail Road is rolling over the track once more — in railroad historian and hobbyist Bob Stutzman’s Latrobe basement. The original railroad operated from 1877 to 1952, hauling ...

For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...

AUBURN - The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train lives on, in miniature form, thanks to a Shrewsbury model railroad enthusiast. “You’re not going to find another train like this anywhere,” ...

The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered one of the worst train wrecks in history in 1918, with more than 100 people injured and 86 killed. Wikimedia Commons The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wasn’t the ...

The state Department of Transportation is trying again to auction off five railroad cars where circus performers and crew once slept as they moved around the country. The cars were unscathed by a fire ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The first car to go off the rails held the elephants. The tigers, lions, horses, crocodiles, ...

Three years ago, the state Department of Transportation bought nine railroad cars from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, thinking it would one day refurbish them and use them on the ...

Susie O'Brien, a local woman from Tyrone, has shared the story of the Walter L. Main Circus Train derailment over 700 times in the past 30 years. She will recount the tale once again as part of the ...

For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...

The first car to go off the rails held the elephants. The tigers, lions, horses, crocodiles, pythons and a gorilla known as the "Man-Slayer" followed as the Walter L. Main circus train careened off ...