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Trains Album of Photographs #19 Circus Trains By Charles Philip Fox Spiral Bound
Trains Album of Photographs #19 Circus Trains By Charles Philip Fox
Spiral Bound
Copyright 1947
19 single side pages of photos includes one fold out page. Measures approx. 10 X 14 inches.
Picture story of transportation of the circus by trains. Fine views of special equipment used to move the big top.
"The Greatest Show on Earth" started traveling by railroad in the spring of 1872, when the Barnum & Bailey Circus became the first show to move from city to city by train. It was at the insistence of W. C. Coup, general manager of the circus, that travel by rail came about. One of the big things that resulted, due to the tremendous carrying capacity of the railroad, was the first three-ring circus. The show became bigger and better than ever.
On a circus train, special flat cars are used to handle the heavily loaded wagons quickly and efficiently. Stock cars are also specially designed to carry elephants, camels, zebras, and several hundred horses. Colorful passenger cars are fitted for the performers and crew.
The "Big One," as it is called by the press and radio, travels on 100 cars, which the circus owns - enough to make four complete trains. These cars are all 70 feet long, nearly twice as long as the ordinary box car. Put end to end, they make a train nearly 11/2 miles in length. Locomotives, cabooses, and train crews are furnished by each of the 50 railroads the circus travels upon as it goes from city to city all over the country.
The following pages illustrate how "The Greatest Show on Earth" moves about from one city to another in a single night, and how in only a few hours it explodes from tightly packed wagons on railroad cars into a spectacular array of entertainment.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is, and always has been, the largest circus in the entire world.
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