Saturday, January 23, 2010

Royal American Shows


There are some of the Thrall flats up at the Circus World Museum. Two were repainted and used in the Great Circus Parade trains over the years. The other four are still sitting outside the train barns with the Royal American Shows lettering still on them.
I guess everyone knows that these all came from the Ringling show. They bought 12 of them for the Seat wagons but they didn't work out very well for the seat wagon loads. I think Royal American bought them in 1961 from Ringling.

3 comments:

Down the Road by Jim said...

Pretty neat picture --- check the air conditioners in the coach windows !

tfv said...

what year was this Photo taken ?? is this a picture from Circus World ??

Bob Cline said...

This was taken in 1981 at the RAS winter quarters in Tampa.