Washington bans wild animals in circuses: a fading tradition. Learn how public ethics are shifting in animal entertainment.

After the show, Jumbo and a small elephant called Tom Thumb were being loaded into a circus boxcar when an unscheduled freight train came hurtling down the tracks towards them. Tom Thumb survived.

Ringling last rolled into Birmingham in 2017 on its classic mile-long circus train that traditionally housed elephants, performers, crew members and their families. The company has toured for ...

On a quiet May morning in Marietta 110 years ago, the first of five trains made their way from Zanesville to Marietta as the ...

The zoo’s owners bought the elephant from a travelling circus in the Scottish capital from where he was supposed to travel down south on the train. Maharajah had other ideas and tore the roof off his ...

After losing what matters most, a young man jumps a moving train unsure of where the road will take him and finds a new home with the remarkable crew of a traveling circus, and a life—and love ...

It was quite common to see circus processions walking through the city, presumably some arrived by train and the processions were useful advertising.' And it seems that the elephants parades ...

After losing what matters most, a young man jumps a moving train unsure of where the road will take him and finds a new home with the remarkable crew of a traveling circus, and a life—and love ...