The Last Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus Train on FEC - Part 1

On January 14, Feld Entertainment announced that Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus will cease to perform effective May of this year. As a consequence, the circus trains, which have traveled the country for so many years will go with it. I took the opportunity to railfan the FEC doing their best (as you will see in Part 2) to prepare what would be the last ever outbound run of the Circus Train. This video contains footage from the rarely filmed Medley Lead and the Commerce Park Industrial spurs in Miami, FL, by Florida East Coast Railway's Hialeah Yard. All of the work, thus far, was done with FEC SD40-2 #714.
Enjoy.

[@dannyholt105]

Great coverage! We will miss the circus train. Sad stuff. Thanks. Cheers, Dan

[@anandguruji83]

R.I.P RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS 1871-2017

[@anandguruji83]

R.I.P RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS 1871-2017

[@tommy4trains]

Good video

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

I thought *all* the R. B.-B. & .B. 'stuff' was headquartered in Sarasota.

[@bnsf1720]

Awesome

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

+brickbuilder711 >>> I thought the R. B. AND B. & B. CIRCUS 'stuff' was headquartered in Sarasota.

[@Deadbuck73]

Seriously... who just goes around shutting down circuses? What a bummer...

[@Little-Oshawott-2010]

Brickbuilder, does the train still have animal cars?

[@CovBert]

If theuy put the lions and tiger in cars then yes but no elephant car's

[@bnsf1720]

When are doing another Lego video?

[@TolgaEastCoast]

Very soon... Got two cars (Mini Cooper S and Ford Explorer) willing to do how to videos for them. Left them out of the GCRM layout to break apart and do step-by-step.

[@Chuck59ish]

Sad loss, let's blame it on Trump.

[@dandowling751]

Charles Damery lol

[@cdavid8139]

More of a PETA left-wind issue that certainly hurt the circus. When they lost the elephants they lost a major attraction. I feel sorry for all the workers who had circus as their life.

[@aloneinhardeeville]

Charles Damery it’s not trump it’s the democrats

[@Og-Judy]

@@aloneinhardeeville Actually it was NON partisan PETA crap that forced The circus to lose its Main Act and crowd pleaser ...The ELEPHANTS which maintained Ringling And Barnum &Bailey were abusing them. Without the elephant acts the people stopped attending and they started losing money. So, it was PETA who solely caused the end of the "Greatest Show on Earth". Useless mofos. Now they got folks becoming "sympathetic Vegans" against the Beef Cattle, Pork and Dairy industries. You know, those gullible ignoramuses who buy into every conspiracy out there.🙄PETA also "euthanized" thousands of animals in THEIR "shelter" as "mercy killings" They just a bunch of kook pot activists.

[@brakie44820]

6 axle locomotives is at home on industrial sidings..

[@railangel6103]

excellent video I'm going to miss the circus train so beautiful

[@MoneyMarcMes]

Great Footage!!!

[@thewhateverandthesucidalbi2729]

Really sad that in the future we will have to explain what circuses are to our youth population.

[@cdavid8139]

They are all too busy on their cell phones to care. Sigh

[@colivera427]

Very sad to see the train and the circus decommissioned. Great video as always.

[@LynneAnn51]

💔😢

[@clarklindquist8137]

I've seen them a number of times in Texas and again in utah. Back when they had their own locomotives. At one time, their mile long train was the longest in the USA

[@stampycatfan01lol]

More room for BrightLine, I guess.

[@eoinpkav152]

Looked like a gp38 for a sec. Then oh its an sd40-(whatever)

[@inekev6566]

Goodbye circustrain goodbye ringling goodbye animal abusers