The UP 3985 Challenger with the Circus Train on there way to Denver.

The Ringling Brothers Red Unit circus train pulls up to 7th Street East Moline on it's way to its final destination in Moline for a Labor Day weekend full of family entertainment. 7th Street is w... (more)

The Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus Blue Unit train arrives in Hartford from Providence.

The crew on UPY 2724 have a chat with a couple Anaheim PD motorcycle officers when the circus train came to a stop heading up Olive St. They were bringing the circus train up to meet up with the ... (more)

Two freshly painted former Soo Line GP38-2s pull the Great Circus train through Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on July 6, 1993. The 27-car train is loaded with animals in stock cars, dignitaries in heavywei... (more)

The Great Circus train slowly heads east through Pewaukee, Wisconsin, over the former Milwaukee Road main line on July 6, 1993. Hundreds of spectators lined the tracks to view the 27-car train of ... (more)

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train always draws a crowd - particularly when it comes time to unload the elephants and horses! Late in the afternoon on July 24th, 2013, Union Paci... (more)

I'd often wondered how the large Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus) in the circus made it through the doors of the former baggage cars converted to elephant cars on the Ringling Bro... (more)

With only seconds to spare before the sun had set, UP 8078 South leads the RBBX Circus train around the curve between Hiland and Silverwood on the Mojave Sub.

Today you have to get luck to take a picture of a so called "Knie-Zug". The "Knie" is the biggest national circus in Switzerland and he is still moving his material between two shows by rail to th... (more)

Three UP units lead the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus Train bound for Las Vegas, NV out of Platteville, Colorado after meeting southbound loaded coal train in the siding. The train wi... (more)

The circus came to town! And... kept going. RBBX S/B train running as NS 047 crosses the Tennessee River at Tennbridge.

A BNSF mixed freight uses a lot of bells and whistle as they pass NS Train 048, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train, changing animal crews at Maxwell on the NS Kansas City District... (more)

RBBX Circus Train led by BNSF 7214 makes it's way north through San Clemente in 2011.

NS 048 charges East through Atkins with the Ringling Brothers circus train in tow on a beautiful Spring morning.