Model train builder and circus fan Joe Kaspar has donated to Circus World a 200-piece miniature replica of the 1947 Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus train.

Today, his North Port garage is a circus museum, where he built a 1/87th-size model of the 56th season of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus under canvas—the last year it toured.

He and members of the Circus Model Builders from throughout the country will bring their scale model circuses, wagons and trains to Eastfield Mall in Springfield Sept. 10-13.

In his spare time, he kept building midways, big tops, and side shows, and in 1978, after joining a circus model club, Rodney launched a business to sell them. “My first 10 or 15 customers were ...

Assembled over decades, The Tibbals Circus Collection includes photographs, posters and other advertising materials, programs, scrapbooks, correspondence, design drawings, costumes, and props as ...

Joe Rauenbuehler, the Circus Model Builders’ national convention committee chair, said they have 25 displays by people from 15 states, including builders from as far away as California and New ...

This is the 58th annual Circus Model Builders Convention, but only the second time it’s been held in Missouri. The group was formed in 1936 as a way for builders and owners to share ideas and plans.

When the Circus Model Builders get together, the exhibits are numerous and varied. Bonner says members come from all over the United States and abroad.

"I don't play with trains," Tom DeWitt, 65, said from his motorized wheelchair at the Circus Model Builders display at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art on Sunday. "I model them." ...

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BARABOO — A miniature model will help Circus World Museum visitors appreciate the grand scale of the old Ringling Bros. circus train. Model train builder and circus fan Joe Kaspar has donated to ...