My obsession lately has been reading about the Ringling Brothers Circus train. While I wouldn't want to live on a train like that for much longer then a few weeks, it sounded interesting. One of the ringmasters in the early 2000's (Kevin Venardos) was a news media guy for CBS news and after he retired, he took a few trips with his son. I came across the videos his dad made a while ago and lately have been rewatching them. Here is one but there three more on the channel this is on.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFYpoAzURGs
It is sad that kids nowadays won't even get to experience seeing a circus train or possibly going to a circus as many don't exist much anymore. It has also been interesting trying to find where RBBB circus stayed in winter when they were still going, where the trains went, etc. There seems to be one traveling carnival that transports rides by train still (Strates shows). At one point, the red and blue units for Ringling Brothers were the longest privately owned trains. Some of the old circus train cars went to Wisconsin, some of the train cars went to Florida to a educational farm to be used for housing for summer camps, some of the cars are sitting in a forest in North Carolina NCDot bought some to use on a railroad and then got a grant to buy new cars), and the rest who knows.
When my girls get older or are out of the house, I want to take a train trip out west.
Cool, I know it sounds weird but exploring other jobs while not being tied down to them except a week or two sounds fun. I learned how mill from a friend who owns a historic roller mill locally. I think it would be neat to run a roller coaster for 3-4 days. Conveniently I have a friend who owns an amusement park in Birmingham Alabama.My old friend Chris from HS was a Ringling Bros clown. Went to their clown college and stuff. Weird cat but kinda cool.
Cftte, i loved being a temp for that very reason, doing a bunch of jobs with no tie down. i get bored by routine monotonous tasks so temping is great.
My obsession lately has been reading about the Ringling Brothers Circus train. While I wouldn't want to live on a train like that for much longer then a few weeks, it sounded interesting. One of the ringmasters in the early 2000's (Kevin Venardos) was a news media guy for CBS news and after he retired, he took a few trips with his son. I came across the videos his dad made a while ago and lately have been rewatching them. Here is one but there three more on the channel this is on.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFYpoAzURGs
It is sad that kids nowadays won't even get to experience seeing a circus train or possibly going to a circus as many don't exist much anymore. It has also been interesting trying to find where RBBB circus stayed in winter when they were still going, where the trains went, etc. There seems to be one traveling carnival that transports rides by train still (Strates shows). At one point, the red and blue units for Ringling Brothers were the longest privately owned trains. Some of the old circus train cars went to Wisconsin, some of the train cars went to Florida to a educational farm to be used for housing for summer camps, some of the cars are sitting in a forest in North Carolina NCDot bought some to use on a railroad and then got a grant to buy new cars), and the rest who knows.
When my girls get older or are out of the house, I want to take a train trip out west.
It was an art project...Bwahahaha!!!
What does sasquatch, monoliths, pyramids, bass pro, and the ghost of Elvis have in common?
Come Watson, the game is afoot!
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"When I was walking in Memphis
I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale
Walking in Memphis
But do I really feel the way I feel?"
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