Clyde Beatty’s Railroad Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on April 29, 2009
The circus program in 1952 boasted and promoted Beatty’s railroad circus. I do not believe that it was as large as many of the circuses before him however his show was impressive and it was obvious that he put money into it.
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From 1946 to 1956, the Clyde Beatty Railroad Circus travelled on 15 cars. Not the largest consist, but as Buckles Woodcock remembers, “They put a lot of circus on those 15 cars.”