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 ...

Tucked away in the woods of Nash County is the last place you'd expect to find nine old railroad cars from the 1960s Barnum & Bailey circus. Sadly, the vacant train caught fire on Thursday morning – ...

The state of North Carolina said it will try again to auction off railroad cars, including nine that were once owned by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which it bought in hopes of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When I was 12 in 1967, the circus came to our Central Valley town near Hanford. It was the talk of the school yard, when to our surprise, the circus began setting up on the school yard itself. We had ...

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