Micro-Trains Line N 04700408 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Billboard Car #8

Micro-Trains Line 047 00 408 N-Scale Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Billboard Car #8 40' Double-Sheathed Wood Reefer

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey™ Billboard Series is the newest series from Micro-Trains! This 12-month series will feature colorful representations of actual vintage posters used by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® to promote their shows. Each month a new vintage poster will be displayed across the side of our freight cars. The series will include 11 freight cars, one locomotive and a caboose.

Posters were an essential promotional tool for the circus. They were posted by the advance crew all over town and often up to 20 miles outside of the community weeks before the circus arrived. Thousands of these colorful and detailed advertisements were produced for each show and would range from single sheet flyers to large billboards for vacant fields or large buildings. This collectible freight car series will celebrate 11 special Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey posters.

This was one of the first posters designed to announce the historic union of the Ringling Brothers Circus with that of Barnum & Bailey, which took place in 1919. It embodies three main elements of the circus: beautiful performers, entertaining clowns and magnificent animals.

All Micro-Trains N scale freight cars and engines come standard with the delayed action Magne-Matic coupler - the finest coupler in model railroading. It is the "Standard by Choice" of model railroaders worldwide!