PAR 1 leads a blue all EMD consist through the curve at Clinton with a trail of blue smoke.They are leading the Ringling Bothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train. This is the final season for this... (more)

Providence & Worcester brings to the Circus Extra, symbol WX-1 through downtown Worcester to interchange with Pan Am at Barbers.

Unloading of KNIE circus trailers (personnel carrier) from SBB flat cars of Kps type in Winterthur freight yard. The KNIE circus is moving from town to town over night using two chartered trains o... (more)

Re 430 # 356 of SBB Cargo in Winterthur freight yard, with a train of the swiss national circus KNIE. The KNIE circus is moving from town to town over night using two chartered trains of the SBB w... (more)

The last RBBB Circus Train to run across upstate NY rolls NB on the former D&H at 5:36pm on an unseasonably warm Spring day. This is the Red Unit "Circus Xtreme" on it's way from Wilkes-... (more)

Am I blue?

CSX leads one of the last Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus trains westbound through Langhorne, PA, under a tunnel of catenary on the former Reading right of way. T... (more)

Lions and Tigers (No Bears)! Oh My!

In the 1990’s, I photographed the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey’s circus trains quite a few times. For me, along with seeing the lon... (more)

The Ringling Brothers an Barnum Bailey Red Unit train makes it final run over the Blue Ridge mountains on its way to Norfolk.

On gloomy 1st morning of Spring that definitely fits the somber mood, the final Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train to visit the Queen City of Cincinnati pauses in the rain at the o... (more)

On a gloomy 1st morning of Spring that definitely fits the somber mood, the final Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train to visit the Queen City of Cincinnati pauses in a downpour at t... (more)

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Train makes its final appearance in the town of Winchester as it splits the classic L&N scene at the control point at North Cabin. After 146 year... (more)

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train departed Atlanta, Georgia for the last time on March 6, 2017 at 14:45 after completing it's closing shows which consumed the prior two weeks.... (more)

With word now official (Feb. 2017) that rolling stock from both the red and blue units of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus trains will soon be auctioned off, a look back through th... (more)

The equipment half of The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train awaits loading in downtown Manchester. The passenger cars were stored a half an hour south in Pan Am's Nashua yard.