Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train
RBBX 42204
Residential Coach Car

Originally CHESAPEAKE & OHIO 2618 CITY OF ALDERSON, built by Pullman in 1950 as a 10-6 sleeper. To ACL VOLUSIA COUNTY in 1950. To SCL 6657 VOLUSIA COUNTY. To Hamburg Industries 6657. To Amtrak 2803 VOLUSIA COUNTY in 1973. To Auto-Train 251 in 1976. To Ringling in 1978 to become MC-240 for the Gold Unit Monte Carlo Train in 1979. By 1986 it was RBX 73. To RBBX 42204 in 1995. Out of service in 1999.

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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