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Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday morning. VAIL — Local historian Susan O’Brien recited a mountain of facts Wednesday during a service commemorating the 1893 Walter L. Main Circus ...
A circus train chugging toward Orlando for weekend shows derailed Thursday morning, killing two workers, including a star elephant trainer and a woman who worked as a clown. Fourteen other ...
Main circus train careened off the tracks down a 30-foot-high (10 meters) embankment, with gold-gilt, steel-barred wagons crashing one on top of the other in the legendary pileup at Tyrone ...
uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park in Vail on Wednesday morning. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski VAIL – Benches, a pavilion ...
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 ...
and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and local officials turned out recently to celebrate the new Circus Train Car Museum with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The museum – housed in a former sleeper car once ...
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The train carrying the circus performers collided with a steel passenger train heading to Macon and the impact was so intense witnesses said the trains fused like a telescope collapsing.
Ringling last rolled into Birmingham in 2017 on its classic mile-long circus train that traditionally housed elephants, performers, crew members and their families. The company has toured for ...
Now, Hernandez-DiStasi is the artistic director and a co-founder of the Actors Gymnasium, one of the handful of gyms in the Chicago area that train students in the circus arts. There are still ...