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Zach Pumphery's Collection
 
5/26/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey
Type: Stock Car
AAR Class: PB: A car constructed for passenger train service and equipped to handle baggage, express, mail, merchandise or similar products.
AAR Type: M510
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
Builder:   Saint Louis Car Company
User Notes:   ex-UP 5762, UP MOW 904707, blt in 1962 by StLCC

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Southbound Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train
Title:  Southbound Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train
Description:  My grandpa signed out of school at 10:05 A.M. from Malden High School. The train was symboled SSLME 21, it went through Dupo, IL at 5:25, it passed Gorham at 8:11, Simbco at 9:02, Delta, MO at 11:38, arrived at North Dexter at 13:02, left at 13:38, got to Bernie at 13:52, arrived into Malden at 14:04, departed at 14:48, arrived into Memphis, TN at 20:42, was interchanged with the NS and arrived into Jacksonville, FL on November 23 on the CSX, and got to its Tampa, FL Winter Home Base on the 24th. The train was 5,623 tons, 5,301 feet, and had 58 loads and 0 empties. They rocketed south here at about 65 mph and blew the horn 4 times at me. The entire train is in view. The train was the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey 134th Edition Blue Unit Circus Train. See all the cars in order at: http://www.trainweb.org/semorails/circus.html .
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 7:25:00 PM
Location:  Dexter, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  CSX 8357(SD40-2) UP 4425(SD70M)
Views:  1771   Comments: 2
Heading South
Title:  Heading South
Description:  I zoomed in as the train rolled south at about 75 mph, we were outdoing him by about 5 mph. This is across the a picked cotton field north of the chicken houses.
Photo Date:  11/21/2005  Upload Date: 12/1/2005 7:25:05 PM
Location:  Bernie, MO
Author:  Zach Pumphery
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Locomotives:  UP 4425(SD70M) CSX 8357(SD40-2)
Views:  622   Comments: 0


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