Flatcars # 10 & 20

The two Mt. Vernon flatcars # 10 & # 20 on the show grounds came from the Bill Hames family in Texas. My Dad's photo taken in 1963 still reflects the Bill Hames Shows paint job. Since there are no railroad tracks on the grounds attached to a real rail line, these cars were all picked up by cranes and re-located onto trucks, then moved to this newly built rail spur, then placed back on tracks. Over the years, these two cars have been used for the loading and unloading demonstration. As you can see from these photos, real horsepower was used. The horses are now gone from the Circus World Museum and the Mack trucks are used instead. The following photos will show some of the various paint and lettering schemes that have been used on these two cars over the last 45 years.