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On the Road with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

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Circus clown Dj Weiss relaxes on the trainin a friends room, during the train ride between Richmond, VA and Washington DC. Weiss' sister is a clown on one of Ringling's other traveling shows. His mother was also a clown.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus started in 1919 when the circus created by James Anthony Bailey and P. T. Barnum merged with the Ringling Brothers Circus. Currently, the circus maintains two circus train-based shows, the Blue Tour and the Red Tour, as well as the truck-based Gold Tour. Each train is a mile long with roughly 60 cars: 40 passenger cars and 20 freight. Each train presents a different "edition" of the show, using a numbering scheme that dates back to circus origins in 1871 — the first year of P.T. Barnum's show.

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Circus clown Dj Weiss relaxes on the trainin a friends room, during the train ride between Richmond, VA and Washington DC. Weiss' sister is a clown on one of Ringling's other traveling shows. His mother was also a clown. <br /> <br /> Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus started in 1919 when the circus created by James Anthony Bailey and P. T. Barnum merged with the Ringling Brothers Circus. Currently, the circus maintains two circus train-based shows, the Blue Tour and the Red Tour, as well as the truck-based Gold Tour. Each train is a mile long with roughly 60 cars: 40 passenger cars and 20 freight. Each train presents a different "edition" of the show, using a numbering scheme that dates back to circus origins in 1871 — the first year of P.T. Barnum's show.