A miniature model will help Circus World Museum visitors appreciate the grand scale of the old Ringling Bros. circus train. Model train builder and circus fan Joe Kaspar has donated to Circus World a ...

Think model trains, but instead of railroads, this convention features tiny big tops, model circus wagons and yes, some model train cars, too. “It’s a three-dimensional preservation of circus history, ...

The Illiana Garden Railway Society is bringing a bit of the big top to Valparaiso. Circus Train Day takes place June 6 at 295 N. Indiana 2. Although a smaller version of an American tradition, ...

When Chris Johnson was in junior high school, he “ran off” with the circus. From 1968 to 1982, he traveled with various big tops, pitching in by hawking snow cones, popcorn and balloons. Now, 35 years ...

PITTSFIELD — Just checking in on Jack Trowill, the man who, for decades, would travel over hill and dale with his projector, his slides, his notes and his memories. He’d be at the beck and call of any ...

Children love the circus, so what better toy than a model circus parade? In the late 19th century, cages of animals were drawn by horses through the main part of town to announce that the circus had ...

The Antique Automobile Club of America Museum welcomes the public to explore the circus during the opening of its Circus Model Builders International exhibition, on display Monday through May 26. The ...

Don Oswalt clearly remembers the day he first discovered the circus. He was 10 years old and his younger sister ran into the living room yelling, “Mommy, come look.” Following his mother and sister, ...

Every nook and cranny in the home of Daniel and Wilma Bonner of Wilson is filled with brightly costumed clowns, marching elephants and circus souvenirs. On the walls are posters and photographs of ...

VALPARAISO | The Circus comes to town on the Illiana Garden Railway Society's G- Scale "Bull Moose" diorama for one day, June 7. Five Colossal circus trains will run all day long, from 10 a.m. to 4 ...

A young farmer says a lockdown project to convert a disused circus wagon into a home has inspired a new business. Frankie Lord, 28, from Penn, Buckinghamshire, said he "used his imagination" to adapt ...

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