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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 Venice Area Historical Society was recently honored by the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation with a Florida Preservation Award for the Circus Train Car Museum and for its "significant ...

Susie O'Brien, a local woman from Tyrone, has shared the story of the Walter L. Main Circus Train derailment over 700 times in the past 30 years. She will recount the tale once again as part of the ...