Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train
RBBX 60004
Elephant Stock Car
Originally Union Pacific 6300, built by ACF in 1961 as a baggage/storage car. To Ringling in 1972 as an Elephant Stock Car. By 1977 it was RB-130. By 1979 it was still RB-130 (while another car - former NYC 10429 MEXICO BAY - was in storage in Venice, FL also as RB-130). Numbered RBX 130 for a time in the 1982-1994 RBX numbering scheme. To Florida Railroad Museum in 2012.
Image: Thom Horvath on May 20, 1997.
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