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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train
RBBX 40006

Residential Coach Car

Originally Union Pacific 5459, built by ACF in 1953. To Ringling in 1972. By 1979 it was RB-51. By 1984 it was RBX 51. By 1987 it was RBX 50. Numbered 48 for a time in the RBX numbering scheme. To RBBX 40006 in 1995. Ringling configured the interior to 14 bedrooms. 

Image: John McCluskey on May 10, 2017 at Elmhurst, NY - the very last movement of the Blue Unit.

 


Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train  
  Image: G. Gerard on January 21, 2008 at Waycross, GA. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train  
 

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

 

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train  
 

Former RBBX 40006 is seen passing through Bangor, Pennsylvania on a move by NS H76 on June 10, 2017. It was one of the three cars that was acquired by the Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society.

Photo: Thom Horvath on June 10, 2017

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