The story of a circus train accident has become the stuff of legend in the Pennsylvania town of Tyrone, ... lion-cage locks and railroad spikes have turned up every time a new home is built on the ...

A circus in Argentina that kept four tigers locked up in a train car cage for over 15 years sent them to a big cat sanctuary in South Africa, where they will be able to roam freely.

The circus still rolls across the country carrying hundreds of performers, stagehands and children in a mile-long train. These days, they call it a "town without a ZIP code." ...

VAIL — Local historian Susan O’Brien recited a mountain of facts Wednesday during a service commemorating the 1893 Walter L. Main Circus Train wreck just outside Tyrone. O’Brien, who has ...

The first car to go off the rails held the elephants. The tigers, lions, horses, crocodiles, pythons and a gorilla known as the "Man-Slayer" followed as the Walter L. Main circus train careened ...

Want to act like a monkey? You can. Just make sure you ride in the monkey car on the Casey Jr. Circus Train. The small train has two animal cars, one for those who want to be a monkey and another f… ...

Gorgeous roaring lioness sitting in a circus arena cage 4. Submarine parts – Roughly once every 18 months, a mysterious train travels from Massachusetts to Groton, Connecticut.

A Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus elephant steps out of a train car after arriving in Carlstadt on March 6, 2007. It was an unusual sight, but a routine for the circus as this was how ...

VENICE — Retired circus performers, owners of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and local officials turned out recently to celebrate the new Circus Train Car Museum with a ribbon ...

A tiger at a circus in a northern Chinese village broke out of its cage and injured two members of the audience on Saturday, state media reported. The victims, both children, have now returned ...

Wahpeton was buzzing the morning of June 10, 1897 — 105 years ago Monday. The Ringling Bros. Circus train was pulling into the Great Northern Depot, having just finished shows in Fargo, Grand ...