The Circus Moves by Rail [Hardcover]

Tom Parkinson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 391 pages
• Publisher: Pruett Pub Co; 1st edition (June 1970)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871085151
• ISBN-13: 978-0871085153
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #708,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Trains and the Big Top, April 2, 2009

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Paige Turner "paige turner" (Kansas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Circus Moves by Rail

This is a cool book full of photos of old trains, circus animals boarding trains, reproductions of circus posters, train timetables, routing schedules, even bills of lading and the like. Apparently the big circus operations had custom built and custom painted rail cars. There is a chapter with pictures of derailments and other mishaps. Someone else said it is the definitive book on the circus and trains from the very early days to modern tunnel cars, but I have no way to compare - I've never seen another book covering this narrow topic.