[Scan-DC] Red Unit of Circus Train Coming to DC Next Week

[Blair Thompson]

Thanks. I was wondering how they would get from Cincinnati to Cumberland. The old Parkersburg line has been cut, right? In that case, the train would have to come over Sand Patch. 

I've recently been looking at the article about the Magnolia Cut-Off by Jerry and Brian Plant in the October 2002 issue of Railfan and Railroad magazine. Westbound trains are generally better for photography, but if this train runs by day, there should be some good pictures. You can get a good straight shot of it coming up the Barnesville grade.

Best wishes.

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Sean Hoyden <sean.hoyden at gmail.com>
To: Blair Thompson <b_thom at juno.com>
Cc: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Red Unit of Circus Train Coming to DC Next Week
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:18:09 -0400

The train usually comes in via the old B&O into DC via Cumberland,
Brunswick, Point of Rocks, Gaithersburg, Rockville.  There's been a couple
of instances where it has come in via NS through Manassas, but that's the
exception and not the rule.

Generally, the train gets set off at Benning Yard in Southeast under pretty
tight security.  (A couple of coaches were vandalized (tagged) a few years
back in Benning.)

I think it spends about a month in the area, because it then goes to
Baltimore, and then eventually Fairfax (GMU).


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Blair Thompson <b_thom at juno.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.ringling.com/TourSchedule.aspx?action=details&engagementId=107780
>
> They use a business band frequency. See:
>
>
> http://forums.radioreference.com/railroad-railfan-monitoring-forum/267832-circus-train-radios.html
>
> Especially post #8:
>
> "Last time the train was here, it was 151.625 167.9"
>
> If I'm following this right, the Red Unit is in Cincinnati now, and the
> Blue Unit is in Newark:
>
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CircusTrain/conversations/messages
>
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CircusTrain/conversations/messages/5660
>
> The Red Unit closes in Cincinnati on March 16 and goes from there to DC. I
> don't know what route they take.
>
> If the circus follows tradition (and what are the odds against that?),
> there will be a parade of animals, clowns, and assorted circus personnel up
> Third Street right in front of the Capitol. You are free to make your own
> jokes about that situation.
>
> A few years back, I saw a bus with middle school kids, maybe on their
> once-in-a-lifetime visit to DC, get stopped by the MPD right at
> Constitution Avenue and Third Street so the parade could go by. When the
> driver figured out the reason for stopping, he opened the bus door. All the
> kids poured out and had the best day yet of their lives. It was great.
>
> The parade, if it follows the usual route, will go under the Department of
> Labor's Frances Perkins Building and hang a left a few blocks up for the
> final few blocks to the Verizon Center.
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