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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...