Circus Trains at the Rochester Model Railroad Club

During my first visit to the Rochester Model Railroad Club in Rochester, NY, my HO scale Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey blue unit train met its counterpart, the red unit. The members and I had lots of fun staging the trains in different spots around the layout and running them side by side.

[@MLIW265-FAN]

What base baggage cars did you use for the first 3 like what company

[@TKDMaster20114]

The baggage cars I used were Walthers 85' UP baggage cars.

[@Amayas_G]

What did you use for the flat cars??

[@TKDMaster20114]

The flat cars are Athearn Genesis TTX Twin F89F 89' TOFC Flat Cars

[@troyb1733]

Is one supposed to be blue and one red? like "a" train and "b" train??

[@thehocircustrain2656]

Correct. The train you see the most of in this video is the blue, and the other is the red.

[@troyb1733]

@@thehocircustrain2656 I worked with a guy named randy at the U.P. passenger coach shop and he came from the circus trains,he told me alot and I asked alot. It used to roll by our shop in Council Bluffs,Iowa and I would wave and watch and could not believe how long they were. Ringling had a lot of cars. Such a sad shame what has happened to about everything going to sh*t and not being around anymore.

[@troyb1733]

it just dawned on me that the blue and red are in the circle stickers by the vestibule's .I thought they were along the sill.s. Ask a dumb question before I looked closer.

[@thehocircustrain2656]

@@troyb1733 thats ok, It certainly would have made things easier to tell the two trains apart if Ringling had changed the color of the banner under the window sills. At one time, the red unit train also used to have a red pin stripe under the windows, but they did away with it in the late 90s.

[@troyb1733]

@@thehocircustrain2656 Thanks keep filming please