RINGMASTER DIARY This rail line runs behind the tent where we’re set up in Kuna, Idaho. Every time I hear the horn and feel that rumble, I think of my Dad. He loved trains, and his passion for them was contagious. My childhood was filled with building countless models and elaborate layouts in HO gauge of his hometown Alton, Illinois, and the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio RR that used to run through it. Years later when I worked on the Ringling Bros. Circus, Dad lived out a childhood dream when he came t

5 years ago, I witnessed the last run of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus Train through West Trenton, NJ, pulled by a pair of CSX ES44AC-H diesels, CSX 3159 & CSX 726. The train was actually longer than most Circus Trains as it was actually combined from both the Blue unit and Red unit cars, as they both had their last shows in the North East US. The train here is taking the cars back to Florida (with some being split off in North Carolina I believe) to be sold. It now sounds like

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