Each year, from 1927 until the early ’90s, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train could be counted on to bring the greatest show on earth to towns all across America. The caravan was ...

Lorraine Boissoneault - Author, Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered one of the worst train wrecks in history in 1918, with more than 100 ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...

A torch probably started the fire, investigators found out later, when one of the circus workers laid it down in the train car to play cards. The railroad car was already in flames when the engineer ...

The Greatest Show on Earth made a quiet and little-watched exit across a chilly Lombard Street last night — a well-rehearsed mass exodus that filled 32 rail coaches, 16 flatcars plus a quartet of ...

As part of the Orlando Sentinel’s 150th birthday this year, we’ve asked former staffers to write about memorable stories they covered during their time at the newspaper and give some behind-the-scenes ...

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 honor of spooky season, the Ledger-Enquirer is exploring some of Columbus’ most unsettling true-life stories and some of them are scarier than fiction. These stories are (mostly) true and are as ...

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 ...

Step right up this weekend and enjoy a trip to the circus aboard a vintage train, as the Valley Railroad's Circus Train and Big Top Show returns to Essex for its third year. A ringmaster will welcome ...