NASHUA – The Greatest Show on Earth was nothing more than an amusing distraction when it passed through the city Wednesday. A Ringling Bros. Circus freight train carrying animals and all sorts of gear ...

Performers for The Greatest Show On Earth were center stage recently at the Library of Congress, where historic items from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus were donated as part of a "Live ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...

SPRING HOPE, N.C. (WNCN) — Decommissioned Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus cars owned by the State of North Carolina caught fire Thursday morning, according to the Nash County Sheriff’s ...

On this night 130 years ago, Aug. 22, 1889, Barnum and Bailey’s Circus made an unexpected stop in Potsdam. Three circus trains were traveling from Gouverneur, where the circus had performed that ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state of North Carolina say it will try again to auction off railroad cars, including nine that were once owned by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The Raleigh ...

The fire that broke out on a string of former circus train cars in Nash County last week burned four of the cars beyond repair and left five others unscathed, according to the N.C. Department of ...

Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...

Fire heavily damaged several former circus train cars that the N.C. Department of Transportation was storing in the woods in Nash County. Nash County Sheriff's Office Fire broke out Thursday on a ...