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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ESSEX - The Valley Railroad Circus Train & Big Top Show came to Essex on Saturday afternoon to help celebrate an anniversary. Essex Steam Train & Riverboat is celebrating its 40th anniversary with ...

Tigers, lions and elephants died in a flood. Then came the deadliest rail accident in U.S. history when a train engineer fell asleep at the wheel. Roadside Memories author Justin Beahm shares the ...

One of the nine rail cars the N.C. Department of Transportation bought from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has paintings of animals on the side, likely added by a graffiti artist at ...

The saga of the former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars stashed in the North Carolina woods has come to an end. The last of the train cars have been sold, five years after the N.C.