Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train
RBBX 42109
Residential Coach Car

Originally RF&P BYRD ISLAND, built by Pullman in 1949 as a 21-roomette sleeper. To Auto-Train 634 in 1976, but never refurbished or repainted. Sold to Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1979 as RBX 77, then 175. Later RBBX 42109. To Vengroff Williams in 2004.

Image: Juan Viladrosa on May 10, 2003 at San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

Image: By the late Harold A. Driscoll, photographed November 28, 1998 at Chicago, IL.

Much of Harold's photography of the Ringling train can be found archived HERE as recently as 2019.

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