BARABOO — A miniature model will help Circus World Museum visitors appreciate the grand scale of the old Ringling Bros. circus train.

SARASOTA -- Tom DeWitt's swollen hands get in the way of carving lions and miniature circus trains, but his passion for the hobby hasn't diminished in the nearly five decades he's been doing it.

Don Sell, above, president of the Central Ohio Model Railroad Club, places a vintage toy train on the track surrounding the club's newly acquired Fleck's Family Circus miniature layout, part of ...

AUBURN - The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train lives on, in miniature form, thanks to a Shrewsbury model railroad enthusiast. “You’re not going to find another train like this ...

Howard Tibbals spent more than 60 years creating a miniature circus, complete with dozens of model train cars like the ones that traditionally carried circus shows from town to town. He funded a ...

Model train builder Joe Kaspar donated a 200-piece circus train to Circus World Museum, which is displaying it in a historic animal house. The train and its custom-made case run the length of the ...

There is rich greenery, a pond and cascading water. Circus-themed model trains will chug through an idyllic and nostalgic fantasy world. Locomotives haul passengers, animals and flatcars.

The circus was auctioned by Ron Hickman and Paul Wingard, along with hundreds of the model train pieces that once buzzed throughout Quaker Square when the grain silos were converted into a hotel. When ...

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Don Oswalt clearly remembers the day he first discovered the circus. He was 10 years old and his younger sister ran into the living room yelling, “Mommy, come look.” Following his mother and ...