Don Oswalt clearly remembers the day he first discovered the circus. He was 10 years old and his younger sister ran into the living room yelling, “Mommy, come look.” Following his mother and ...

Think model trains, but instead of railroads, this convention features tiny big tops, model circus wagons and yes, some model train cars, too.

Tiny trains, wee wagons and miniature midways reveal their creators’ big passion for all things circus at the regional Circus Model Builders’ annual show. Stephen Flint, ringmaster for the ...

Jack Trowill, of Pittsfield, gives a private tour of his collection of circus model train cars and wagons he has assembled and painted that date back to his boyhood in the 1940s.

Some wagons have cast metal bodies, but Bonner has still built the wooden under-carriages with wheels that actually spin and turn. He also painstakingly paints the tiny models in cheerful circus ...

”Howard Bros. Circus”–2,000 square feet (as a real-life yardstick measures them) of tents and side shows that are packed away into 123 scale-model wagons and loaded on 52 miniature railroad ...

W.J. Morris, known as “Windy,” missed the circus acutely. Morris decided to build a model circus wagon that harked back to his youth. It eventually became a complete circus, built ...

Another model exhibit -- this one of a 150-foot-long circus parade -- will be displayed in the building's second floor. Acquired by Tibbals, it was crafted by Harold Dunn, his modeling mentor.

The circus wagons and equipment contrast sharply with the lush green grass and trees along a rural road a few miles east of Walnutport in Lehigh Township, Northampton County.