The state Department of Transportation is trying again to auction off five railroad cars where circus performers and crew once slept as they moved around the country. The cars were unscathed by a fire ...

The state has found buyers for two former circus train cars that survived a fire that destroyed four others in March. The two cars were sold through the state’s surplus property website to companies ...

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.

SPRING HOPE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A decommissioned train car previously owned by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus caught fire near Spring Hope on Thursday morning. The nine train cars were sitting ...

When I was 12 in 1967, the circus came to our Central Valley town near Hanford. It was the talk of the school yard, when to our surprise, the circus began setting up on the school yard itself. We had ...

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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 – ...

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 ...