Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Circus train cars

This small Web site presents a collection of photographs of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus train during its visit to Chicago in November of 1998. Click on any of these thumbnail images for a larger image.

These cars carry animals, supplies, and equipment as well as providing support fuctions for the circus train.

Baggage car RBBX 60001 RBBX 60011 RBBX 60011 RBBX 60011

Container car RBBX 84801 RBBX 84801 RBBX 84802 RBBX 84802 RBBX 84802

Large animal car RBBX 60006 RBBX 60006 RBBX 60010 RBBX 60010 RBBX 60014 RBBX 60014 RBBX 60017 RBBX 60017

Pie car RBBX 63001 RBBX 63001 RBBX 63001 RBBX 63001 RBBX 63001 RBBX 63001 RBBX 63001

Power car RBBX 63005 RBBX 63005 RBBX 63005 RBBX 63005

I took these photographs during November of 1998 using a Sony Mavica FD-7 digital camera. Adobe Photoshop was used for electronic dark room processing. I've written a custom perl 5 script which constructs these pages from a terse text description file, using a template file.

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This is an unofficial site without any affiliation with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Equipment characteristics are courtesy of the BNSF Web site query service. This is a free site hosted by Angelfire.