Loading ...Maya : thanks for that update on trains outside of Italy . I was unaware of that .
Amals: The one I saw was at a local fair which ran for about a week , but was not part of the huge RB , B&B Circus . Around 1953 I helped erect the RB,B&B sideshow tent and then the bleachers for the ‘Big Top’ main tent when it was still a circus train .
Amazing coordination !
The train would arrive from another city during the wee hours , transport trucks would move equipment , animals and circus crew to the site by 8 am ( first tent was the kitchen and dining tents to serve breakfast to the travelling crew by 7 . We kids would show up by 8:00 for assignments (to earn a free pass later in the day to the sideshow and then the cheaper matinee performance . After the big moneymaker , the (early) evening show , the crew (without the kids) would dismantle everything , truck everything back to the siding load equipment , animals , etc. so the train could pull out.
The crew plus performers would bed down in the sleeping cars to sleep on the way to the next town where the whole process would start again the next day.