circus cars

December 22, 2024

What a circus: NCDOT unloads final Ringling Bros. railcars at a loss

December 1, 2022 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has finally sold off the railcars that originally belonged to the Ringling Bros. circus. The circus railcars were supposed to be refurbished per former NCDOT Secretary Jim […]

Old Ringling Bros. rail cars catch fire in North Carolina

March 10, 2022 The Associated Press

SPRING HOPE — Nine railroad cars once owned by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and had been slated to be refurbished for passenger train service caught fire Thursday in North Carolina, officials said. […]