A fire broke out Thursday morning at a set of decommissioned Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars that have remained parked on a rail line in a wooded area northeast of Spring Hope.
For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...
The rumor spread quickly: The circus was coming to town! More specifically, a circus train. Not just belonging to any circus, but the famed Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus — the Greatest ...