The Illiana Garden Railway Society is bringing a bit of the big top to Valparaiso. Circus Train Day takes place June 6 at 295 N. Indiana 2. Although a smaller version of an American tradition, ...
Want to act like a monkey? You can. Just make sure you ride in the monkey car on the Casey Jr. Circus Train. The small train has two animal cars, one for those who want to be a monkey and another for ...
When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus shut down in 2017 it donated or sold off the railroad cars that made up the two, mile-long trains that carried performers, animals and equipment to ...
In a building less than five blocks from Northwestern, 11 performers swing from silks, balance on each other’s contorted bodies and swing hula hoops from their chins. These performers are a group of ...
As three parts of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus trains make their way to Baraboo, Joe Colossa and other former Ringling workers still are processing the end of the historic brand. When ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the early morning hours of June 22, 1918, the second of two Hagenback-Wallace Circus trains was headed to Hammond from Michigan City when was rear-ended, as it was stopped to check a hot box on a ...