Western Railroad Discussion > RBBB Blue--Sep. 24/25--Indianapolis IN to Des Moines IA

GET READY, DES MOINES, IOWA..............

RINGLING BROS. and BARNUM & BAILEY Circus is coming!
http://www.Ringling.com
151.625 is the Circus Train Operations radio frequency (per the FCC)

Circus Train Yahoo Group:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CircusTrain/
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BLUE UNIT -- 60 CARS -- 136th EDITION (on the second half of its 2-year tour).
SEE: http://ringling.com/explore/136/

Sept. 24/25 --- Indianapolis IN to Des Moines IA. The exact routing not confirmed for this TO.COM posting: those in the region will have to confirm if IOWA INTERSTATE (???) and/or some other routing is to be used for the moves in and out of town, and if so, what [type] motive power might be chosen for this very special move if they use Iowa Interstate for ANY PART of this jump. UNION PACIFIC from Chicago is the most likely routing. NOW---LATE EDIT: A post on the Eastern Railroads discussion board says this:

Author: "PennCentral00"
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It is supposed to take CSX to Chicago and then be handed off to the UP.I'm guessing it will go up the Crawfordsville line;Indy to Crawfordsville and then over the old Monon line via Lafayette to Chicago.

~~FK~~
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Remaining Tour Dates for the 136th Edition (2nd year) are scheduled as follows:

Des Moines, IA
Sep 28 - Sep 30

Boston, MA
Oct 05 - Oct 14

Manchester, NH
Oct 17 - Oct 21

Bridgeport, CT
Oct 24 - Oct 28

Pittsburgh, PA
Nov 01 - Nov 04

St. Louis, MO
Nov 08 - Nov 11

Auburn Hills, MI
Nov 14 - Nov 18

November 19/20/21: "Home [Train-] Run" from Auburn Hills MI to Tampa FL. Two-week break; then begin rehearsals for the All New 138th Edition of The Greatest Show On Earth. To begin their 2-year tour in Tampa, Florida, first week of January 2008.
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Each RBBB "railroad show" takes each Edition on a TWO-YEAR TOUR. This began in 1969, with the Red Unit's "99th Edition" just after the Feld Family came into control of the show, having purchased it from the Ringling-North Family in 1968. Current RBBB Edition Numbers for the two railroad shows are measured from the show's first year, 1871.

DISCLAIMER: All train-run ["jump"] dates presume each train departs the morning [or day] after the closing preforming date. ALL Circus Train-runs can change timing and/or routing WITHOUT NOTICE, even after they have departed their initial terminal, due to the often-unpredictable nature of railroading, in general -- the primary reason RBBB cannot honestly publish their rail-routing prior to a jump.

rbx551985 Wrote:
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> GET READY, DES MOINES, IOWA..............
>
>> Sept. 24/25 --- Indianapolis IN to Des Moines IA.
> The exact routing not confirmed for this TO.COM
> posting: those in the region will have to confirm
> if IOWA INTERSTATE (???) and/or some other routing
> is to be used for the moves in and out of town,
> and if so, what motive power might be chosen for
> this very special move if they use Iowa Interstate
> for ANY PART of this jump.

They'll almost certainly go over UP or BN. Unfortunately IAIS doesn't get the circus train; even when their schedule was from Moline to Des Moines, it would take the long way around on the BN, rats.

Andy Brown