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America’s Greatest Circus Train by Bruce C. Nelson with dust jacket
Americas Greatest Circus Train by Bruce C. Nelson
Americas Greatest Circus Train
Bruce C. Nelson
Hard cover wit dust jacket
208 Pages
Copyright 2013 1st Edition
Contents
FOREWORD 4
PROLOGUE 6
CHAPTER 1 CIRCUSES AND RAILROADING IN AMERICA10
CHAPTER 2 THE VISION OF THE CIRCUS WORLD MUSEUM18
CHAPTER 3 CIRCUS PARADES26
CHAPTER 4 CIRCUS WORLD MUSEUM ROLLING STOCK30
CHAPTER 5 RAILROAD OVERVIEW56
CHAPTER 6 OPERATIONS64
CHAPTER 7 THE CIRCUS PARADE LIMITED84
CHAPTER 8 THE OLD MILWAUKEE SPECIAL92
CHAPTER 9 THE GREAT CHICAGO CIRCUS PARADE106
CHAPTER 10 THE GREAT CIRCUS TRAIN114
CHAPTER 11 CP RAIL ENTERS THE SHOW128
CHAPTER 12 WISCONSIN & SOUTHERN JOINS THE ACT138
CHAPTER 13 FUTURE OPERATIONS166
CHAPTER 14 CIRCUS WORLD MUSEUM ROLLING STOCK ROSTER170
INDEX 202
Circus trains once were common in the United States, and the state of Wisconsin boasted nearly three dozen communities which served as the point of origin or winter quarters for all types of circus troupes between the 184os and the 196os. A Coup and Costello circus train pulled out of Delavan, Wisconsin in 1870 which served as the basis for the P.T. Barnum overland circus, and in 1890 the Ringling Brothers United Monster Railroad Circus, Museum and Menagerie, Roman Hippodrome and Universal World's Exposition left Baraboo for a road trip.
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