The saga of the former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars stashed in the North Carolina woods has come to an end. The last of the train cars have been sold, five years after the N.C.

For Rochester, 1917 was the year the circus almost didn’t come to town. “The red wagons will come tomorrow,” the Rochester Daily Bulletin said on June 21, 1917. “That dear old institution, old but ...

Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...