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 – ...

When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus shut down in 2017 it donated or sold off the railroad cars that made up the two, mile-long trains that carried performers, animals and equipment to ...

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.

Three years ago, the state Department of Transportation bought nine railroad cars from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, thinking it would one day refurbish them and use them on the ...

The train cars previously belonged to The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and were built in the 1960s.

Correction: The Ringling Bros. circus bought the car in 1978 for the Monte-Carlo circus. Later one of its bandleaders lived in the car for a year. An earlier version of the story combined those two ...