The History of Flatcar # 54
This flatcar is a 70 ft. Warren design flat. It was purchased from World of Mirth Shows on September 21, 1964 by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. While on the World of Mirth Shows it was numbered # 39. The car is easily identifiable by a box in the center below the gunwale.
The actual origin of the car is only speculation. Built by the Warren Tank Car Co. sometime between 1920 and 1927, it has been documented that the Bernardi Shows later changed the name to World of Mirth.
Upon it’s acquisition for the Circus Train, the car was refurbished and repainted White with Red letters and a Blue Shading. It was titled The Great Sells-Floto Shows Consolidated and lettered the same on both sides of the car through 1996.
In 1997, the car was repainted Lemon Yellow with Black letters and a Red Outline titled Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus and remained as such until the last Milwaukee parade in 2003.
It is stored outside the Train sheds of the Circus World Museum on a side track as of Sept. 2007.
This flatcar is a 70 ft. Warren design flat. It was purchased from World of Mirth Shows on September 21, 1964 by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. While on the World of Mirth Shows it was numbered # 39. The car is easily identifiable by a box in the center below the gunwale.
The actual origin of the car is only speculation. Built by the Warren Tank Car Co. sometime between 1920 and 1927, it has been documented that the Bernardi Shows later changed the name to World of Mirth.
Upon it’s acquisition for the Circus Train, the car was refurbished and repainted White with Red letters and a Blue Shading. It was titled The Great Sells-Floto Shows Consolidated and lettered the same on both sides of the car through 1996.
In 1997, the car was repainted Lemon Yellow with Black letters and a Red Outline titled Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus and remained as such until the last Milwaukee parade in 2003.
It is stored outside the Train sheds of the Circus World Museum on a side track as of Sept. 2007.
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