The Circus came to town this morning! Actually, it PASSED through town this morning.
These two shots show the overall view of much of the train, which belonged to the James E. Strates Show. I missed the passenger cars on the head end.
Another shot of the train, showing the various trailers carried aboard the long flatcars, including one of the advertising trailers.
Note the pick-up on the far flatcar with it's trailer behind it. The trailer in front of it seems to be a ride, folded up for storage.
More ride trailers, with the tractors attatched. Most of the tractors were these Mack Ultra-Liner cab-overs, others were Mack "R" tractors like the one seen in the first photo. Most seemed a bit worse for wear. A bit hard to see in the photos, all of the flatcars have end drop ramps to facilitate loading and unloading the equipment. This style of loading/inloading was used at the start of intermodal railroading; now trailers are loaded/unloaded using overhead cranes, the same way as containers- like the ones on the train in the background. Driving the equipment on and off the flats was -and still is -called 'circus-style' loading/unloading!
These two shots show the overall view of much of the train, which belonged to the James E. Strates Show. I missed the passenger cars on the head end.
Another shot of the train, showing the various trailers carried aboard the long flatcars, including one of the advertising trailers.
Note the pick-up on the far flatcar with it's trailer behind it. The trailer in front of it seems to be a ride, folded up for storage.
More ride trailers, with the tractors attatched. Most of the tractors were these Mack Ultra-Liner cab-overs, others were Mack "R" tractors like the one seen in the first photo. Most seemed a bit worse for wear. A bit hard to see in the photos, all of the flatcars have end drop ramps to facilitate loading and unloading the equipment. This style of loading/inloading was used at the start of intermodal railroading; now trailers are loaded/unloaded using overhead cranes, the same way as containers- like the ones on the train in the background. Driving the equipment on and off the flats was -and still is -called 'circus-style' loading/unloading!
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