Just ahead, hobbled by a problem car at a switchover point near Hammond, Indiana, was one of the long Hagenbeck-Wallace trains, stationary on the same track. The circus train cars disintegrated as ...

Even now, 130 years later, “(we’re) still part of it,” Jim said. Circus cars were long Before the train left Summit at Sandy Ridge for the trip down the mountain on the Tyrone-Clearfield ...

A memorial service for the five people killed in the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck of 1893 will be held next week. The service marking the 130th anniversary of the derailment will be held at ...