Let's see your Circus Train

standard gauge action

Nice Terry, didn't McCoy make a circus train? Don

MTH/Ives Circus Train

Scott Smith

While not "O" gauge, it is a circus train.

https://youtu.be/HE_xvJXQ30s

In process. Another animal car underway, another couple off flats to load, performers' cars to acquire

Oh man, those STD GA circus trains are so awesome

Rex, are those old WARDIE- JAY kits? I love those old kits. Don

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This is part of mine as it comes to town. Mostly flat cars and a few K-line aluminum. Don

Very cool circus train, Don.  I remember when the circus train would stop in the SP Bayshore yard.  They would have a "parade" and march all the animals up Geneva Ave to the Cow Palace.  We would do traffic control.  Matt

Here is my McCoy at a club meet a while back. I have since added a lot more cars.

https://youtu.be/KT7nys93dwM

My Unique Art Circus just before I sold it.

https://youtu.be/2iaiVW9vFeY

Marx Super Circus with custom Marx train

Here's mine at one of our modular club layouts:

It's a K-Line Nabisco Circus train (I think it was missing a few cars when I bought it) that I added a postwar giraffe car, a more modern elephant car,  and a Franks Roundhouse Animal Crackers boxcar to. I've since added a second Animal Crackers car to it.

It seems to be a somewhat popular train to run; not Thomas or Polar Express popular, but it gets a few smiles each time it's out there.

J White

The 1st 90 seconds of this video has good shots our Modular Club member Ben's Circus Train

Peter

I found another, but the focus isn't as good.....

Peter

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Rex, are those old WARDIE- JAY kits? I love those old kits. Don

Some are. My wagon stock is a mixture of Wardie Jay kits, known and unknown cast kits, R-T-R, and so forth. I have a yuuuge backlog of wooden kits yet to build. I'm finding that age has not treated the wood in the kits kindly; I throw away much of the stripwood. Here is a boiler wagon I scarfed up from eBay. In the background is a display for my wife, a circus lover, of the ERTL circus wagon set.

Once upon a time.

Custom made circus flatcars with circus wagon loads. These are patterned after a Thrall flatcar and a Warren flatcar.

Prototype 72 Foot Warren straight side circus car

Circus display and all Circus trains with controls on the fence for the kids to run the trains.

Close shots

Here are some circus trains running on the G&O.

Bruce, nice looking car. Is that K-line? Don

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Custom made circus flatcars with circus wagon loads. These are patterned after a Thrall flatcar and a Warren flatcar.

Prototype 72 Foot Warren straight side circus car

 

Need to build a bunch of those cars and trailers

Not a circus train, but part of my Royal American Shows carnival train display.

Here's a link to The New York Society of Model Engineers, Their circus train seen at 1:20 to 1:50 in the video. Their located in Carlstadt New Jersey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0VCRohg_U8

Attached are some pictures of my Modern Era RBBB circus train. I plan to add one more flat with some different wagons

The fun part of the layout!!

OOPS wrong scale!!

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OOPS wrong scale!!

That is the most realistic model circus train ever.  How did you get in your house?  What did the wife say?

NH Joe

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The fun part of the layout!!

Very nice setup you have, I like it.

https://youtu.be/HE_xvJXQ30s

And an older one 

https://youtu.be/fPXctM5mw0w

Whoops !  I didn't realize this thread was as long as it is.  

No more O scale Circus trains, just G scale 1:22.5 LGB & BACHMANN  

Peeking out behind the boxes of LGB &HLW  rolling stock is a B-mann Ringmaster set in the last photo.

Rest of boxes are mixed scales & accessories.

2018 update.......the Circus Train is my modular colleague, Ben’s. The Army Train is mine.

Peter

Jim, that American Flyer set was sitting on a high shelf with some Lionel cars at the Dime Store I spent all my money at in Los Angeles in the early 50's. They had set the tent and everything else up on the shelf. I wanted that set so bad but knew it wouldn't run on O gauge track. Every few months they lowered the price. The last I saw it there it was "on sale" for not much more than $10. Those were the days when every store from tire, dime, hardware, electrical stores all sold Lionel and some AF. Don

Here are the cars from my Standard Gauge RB&BB circus train based on Lionel 211 flatcars:

In addition to the above circus flatcars, I also have all of the MTH Standard Gauge 200 series circus cars in my circus train.

Bob Nelson

Here’s a couple of Circus Wagons that I Custom built that I’m working on  

Nice job.  What's the scale?

Bob Nelson