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Circus Trains Trucks And Models Carstens Revised Edition Sept 1990 Soft Cover
Circus Trains Trucks And Models Carstens
Copyright 1950, Revised Edition Sept 1990
Soft Cover
52 pages
CONTENTS
Vidbel Olde Tyme Circus II
Circus Passenger Cars 2
Circus Flat Cars 11
Circus World Museum at Baraboo 14
RBB&B Modern Circus Train 16
RBB&B Sleeper 141-143 ex-SP 18
Timing & Loading 20
RBB&B Circus Trains on NYC 1947 22
Schlitz Circus Parade Limited 24
Full Color Circus Photos 25
The Four RBB&B 1932 Circus Trains 29
Pacific Whaling Company 30
Circus Trains & Modeling 31
Carnival & Side Show Models 31
Bartok Famous Circus 38
Mills Bros. Circus 40
Vidbel Olde Tyme Circus 42
Preamble Express 46
Erie Centennial Train 47
American Freedom Train 48
Model Circuses 50
The model railroader who also enjoys Circus modeling as a number of options he can take. He can model an entire circus complete with three rings, side shows, tents, and all the paraphernalia that goes with a circus. Circus modeling is a complete hobby in its own right, and circus modelers have precious little time to also build a complete model railroad. Most model railroaders would content themselves with modeling just the circus train, at least as a starter.
Circuses began traveling by rail about 1872 in an era when all railroad cars were of wood construction and most highways were unpaved. Early railroad passenger cars were of open end design, and were used to move performers, laborers and officials. The type of accommodations offered would depend on ones' rank in the circus world. The owner, top executives and top stars received the best and most commodious accommodations. Laborers were lucky to get a bunk for themselves. While some railroad passenger cars were bought new, most were bought second hand from railroads having surplus cars as they modernized their own fleets. Circus flat cars developed when regular railroad flat cars proved unsatisfactory. To keep costs of moving the train down, circuses soon developed special extra long Mr. Vernon and Warren flat cars to carry wagons of all types.
The cars were gaudily painted: rolling billboards for the world to see. As the railroads moved on to more modern heavy wood vestibuled cars, the railroads now using steel cars became reticent to allow use of the older truss rodded equipment. Wooden passenger cars were subject to a variety of problems. Many burned from a variety of causes. The older equipment was more accident prone and many were involved in horrible catastrophes, though perhaps not more so than later steel equipment.
The standard heavyweight steel cars were followed by war surplus streamlined cars once used in hospital service and surplus streamlined railroad equipment.
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