Ringling Brother's Barnum and Bailey Circus Train - Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- This video is dedicated to all those viewers in the United States of America who can still remember the spectacular Ringling Brother’s Barnum and Bailey Circus. This Circus was an American traveling circus company billed as “The Greatest Show on Earth”. It and its predecessor shows ran from 1871 to 2017. The circus maintained a gigantic circus train that brought the show to the big cities. The train was a mile long with roughly 60 cars: Tents, workers, canvasmen, ushers and animals were transported by train. Furthermore, the train had also sleeping cars for the performers. Rolling stock belonging to the circus displayed the reporting mark “RBBX”. As soon as you spotted the train, every child knew: The circus is coming to town!
John Rezuke came to the decision to construct an HO scale replica of the circus train after having seen the real train in person. He simply wanted to build something that very few people had done before and something that would stand out. As a railroad modeler he wanted to build something that he could continuously work on, something that was attractive and something that grab people’s attention. Shortly after he came to the decision to build the train, the circus decided to shut the show down. The animals would be let go and the train would be sold off in pieces. After that, John Rezuke felt he was destined to build the train as a tribute to the “Greatest Show on Earth”. He had to do a lot of research to get the details of the train just right. The cars are all modified versions of pre-existing models. Lots of repainting, decaling and window modifications were required.
Of course what really makes the train come to life is when you see the whole train put together running on a model railroad layout. Unlike some modelers, he built the train to run and not sit in a display case. As was prototypical with the real circus train, the railroad company that the train would be traveling over would supply the locomotives. Thus whenever John Rezuke brings the gigantic model train to a model railroad club, the club has to supply the locomotives. Thus we discover in this video how the gigantic HO scale Ringling Brother's Barnum and Bailey Circus Train runs along the model rail layout inside the fantastic Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum.
Bringing the circus train to model railroading clubs and model train shows and letting the public see it up close in person gives John Rezuke the satisfaction of knowing that the memory of the circus train will continue to live on for generations to come. Although it may seem boring for the viewer to watch a model train with 32 cars pulled by three powerful Conrail locomotives, type GE C40-8W, let’s not underestimate the effort of John Rezuke who modeled this train to bring back childhood memories of the circus to many of us.
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❤️The Greatest Show on Earth 🎪🤡Cécile B. DeMille 1952
A great one for this railway monument of the largest circus in the world🇺🇸Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
A big thank you 👍
Thanks for the added sound effects of the wheels "Rail squeal"
fantastic friend really
Impressive!...great job, it must have taken countless hours!!, thank you, Pilentum for sharing
Yeah, when I was traveling with the show, we had a mile and a half long community. It was amazing! No cell phones and only contact with the outside world was when you came into watch us in the arenas . A draining, but gratifying life we shared as a community and family. Life had it's ups and downs, but it was amazingly magical. I'll never get tired of remembering the '80s, totally awesome 😎👍
Автор, браво! Прекрасный фильм! Прекрасные макеты! Эффект погружения достигается за счёт просмотра на большом экране.
Спасибо за просмотр!
Sehr schön!
Breathtaking! Precisely made!👍👏
thank you for posting this,
and including the very detailed description
of so many aspects of the "back round" of the
circus; train; model train; model maker; and, display venues! B-)
It’s great to see John highlighted on your channel. He did a great job with this project.
Fantastic thanks for sharing 😀
For years I got to see this train go though my little town going to Oregon but never seen the show
As you may have read on Pilentum's website, I am from Germany. In Germany, we don't know such extremely long circus trains. Therefore, both the original train and the model train are very interesting.
@@pilentum the trains they were so amazing and so fun to see I’m surprised you didn’t have them in Germany 🇩🇪 I had no idea thanks for sharing 😀 I love you channel it’s one of my favorite train channels 😀👍
Totally awesome
Огромное спасибо за великолепные ролики. Дякую!!!
Incroyable train sur un formidable réseau !!!
Très belle vidéo et merci pour le son qui va bien ...
Magnifique !
Awesome running session 👍♐️
This is kinda cool, even though I was never a fan of the circus. Anything other than the standard traffic made things interesting. The power noted in the description is incorrect though. The first lash up was a pair of SD40-2's and a single C40-8W, while the second set was a trio of C39-8's.
Espectacular. Una idea original y muy bien lograda 👌
I wish someone would make this train it would sell like fire and make millions especially doing the Red and Blue train and do a car a month wow you know everyone will buy them
Nice video!
3:31 Hill-to-Hill Bridge. I ride my bike along the D&L trail there all the time. The railroad bridge that crosses the Lehigh, is actually on the west (other side) of the bridge.
Yo vi en un video de los trenes de HO, con 110 vagones y 5 locomotoras.
Супер!!!
Impresionante y bello, muy detallada maqueta. Si el tren original tenía 1 milla de largo (aprox 1600 m), el de esta maqueta tendrá 18 m? Muchas gracias por compartir!!!👍👍👍👍
Je ne voudrais pas être la voiture qui attend au passage à niveau...
It is a shame that PETA took the circus away from us.
IT IS TOO LONG