Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train
RBBX 42107
Residential Coach Car
Originally RF&P KING & QUEEN, built by PS in 1949 as a 10-6 sleeper. To Auto-Train 633 in 1976. Retired in 1978 and sold to Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus to become #248 on their Monte Carlo Circus Train of 1979. To RBX 177. To RBBX 42107 in 1995. Damaged in a mishap near Fort Wayne, IN in 1999. To Golden Age Railway Equipment in 1999. Now in private ownership at Bellevue, Ohio.
Research on the car's post-1999 history provided by Joseph Zadeh.
Images: By the late Harold A. Driscoll, photographed November 28, 1998 at Chicago, IL.
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