Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Circus Train

This train is so long that I was not able to get a photograph of the entire train in one shot.

Circus Train (Circus train) in the Galewood rail yard, looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. A "pig" (piggyback) train is in the foreground. (photographed 27 November 1998)

Circus Train (Circus train) in the Galewood rail yard, looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. (photographed 27 November 1998)

Circus Train (Circus train) in the Galewood rail yard, looking east and down from the Central Avenue bridge. A "pig" (piggyback) train is tied-down beside the circus train. (photographed 27 November 1998)

Circus Train (Circus train) in the Galewood rail yard, looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. A "pig" (piggyback) train is in the right background. (photographed 27 November 1998)

Circus Train (Circus train) beneath the Central Avenue overpass in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 28 November 1998)

Circus Train (Circus train) viewed from the wast in the Galewood rail yard. (photographed 28 November 1998)

Circus Train (Circus train) in the Galewood rail yard (far left), looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. It is a busy place, with a stopped westbound freight, an oncoming (eastbound) freight locomitive in the distance, a tied-down "pig" (piggyback) train, and to our right a westbound Metra bilevel commuter train is pulling into the Hanson Park station. (photographed 27 November 1998)

Circus Train (Circus train) (on the far left) in the Galewood rail yard, looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. The four large animal cars can be seen west of and detached from the remainder of the train. A "pig" (piggyback) train is in the foreground, beside an eastbound Metra train that is approaching the Hanson Park station. (photographed 27 November 1998)

Circus Train (Circus train) in the Galewood rail yard, looking west and down from the Central Avenue bridge. A "pig" (piggyback) train and another freight train (far left) can be seen passing through the rail yard. (photographed 27 November 1998)

Circus Train (Circus train) in the Galewood rail yard, looking east and down from the Central Avenue bridge. The two container cars can be seen at the far end of the consist. A "pig" (piggyback) train is in the yard to the left. The string of flat cars (not photographed) are on a siding behind the brush at the distant right corner of our view. (photographed 27 November 1998)

I took these photographs during November of 1998 using a Sony Mavica FD-7 digital camera. Adobe Photoshop was used for electronic dark room processing. I've written a custom perl 5 script which constructs these pages from a terse text description file, using a template file.

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