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Sunday, January 13, 2008
7:17:00 PM EST

Railroads

Please excuse my rather lame very first entry for the Round Robin Challenge. I'm late posting and didn't even realize I had anything on file to post until I was searching the perfect photo file for the current Round Robin Challenge.

So here are my railroads photos...

These were taken in the Ringling Circus Museum in Sarasota Florida, it was really something to see! The circus sure was different back in the old days. Here's some info (taken directly from the website) about the circus back then and about the display itself... 

Howard Bros. Circus Model

“Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Step Right Up and See the Largest Miniature Circus in the World – the Howard Bros. Circus!”

The Howard Bros. Circus, complete with eight main tents, 152 wagons, 1,300 circus performers and workers, more than 800 animals and a 57-car train, is on permanent display in the Ringling Circus Museum’s Tibbals Learning Center.  The Howard Bros. Circus is a ¾-inch-to-the-foot scale replica of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus when the tented circus was at its largest (circa 1919-1938), and occupies 3,800 square feet in the 30,600 sq. ft.-Tibbals Learning Center.  The “largest miniature circus in the world” was created over a 50-year time span by master model builder and philanthropist Howard C. Tibbals of Tennessee and Florida.



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  • #11 Comment from queenb8261 
    1/19/08 11:48 PM | Permalink
    Still good shots. My hubby is a locomotive engineer and he's seen a lot circus trains parked at the depot. And we've been able to go see them a couple times. I sure wish I'd taken photos.
    Hugs, Barb
    http://journals.aol.com/queenb8261/DiaryofaMadwoman/
  • #10 Comment from nhd106 
    1/14/08 1:23 PM | Permalink
    At least you posted!  Good for you.  And a good one at that.
    How have you been?

    xo,
    Nancy
  • #9 Comment from wwfbison 
    1/14/08 9:35 AM | Permalink
    I think this is cool - great idea.
    Lisa
  • #8 Comment from mavarin 
    1/14/08 3:57 AM | Permalink
    Oh, neat!  I wonder whether my train buff dad knows about this! Good first entry for the RR. welcome to the Robins!
  • #7 Comment from fdtate714 
    1/14/08 2:24 AM | Permalink
    Oops.  Forgot that you can't use HTML coding in AOL comments.
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