Barnes or Ringling
Posted By thecircusblog on January 27, 2012
These teams of horses are waiting along a railroad siding where the circus train flatbeds are loaded with wagons. Each car or flat may have up to four wagons on it. Long wagon wheel rails are mounted at the back of the flat bed and the wagon is then rolled down the two rails to the ground. It now becomes the team of horses job to pull the show wagons to the lot. Each circus wagon is loaded to capacity with all the circus equipment. This photo is part of the Val Streit collection. She does not know what circus it is in this photo or where it was taken. Her grandfather, C. “Whitey” Jensen traveled with Al G. Barnes and Ringling both and at that time were rail road shows in the early 1930’s.
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