Save the Date: 2014 Circus Train

Every year the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus comes to town and puts on a bunch of shows at local venues.  Traditionally, every year they bring the entire circus to town by rail.  As reported by Railroad.net user 'R36 Combine Coach' last Thursday, Ringling Bros. has posted their tour dates for 2014 on its website.

The circus will be performing at the Barclays center in Brooklyn from February 20th through March 2nd, then they will be moving to the Nassau Coliseum to perform shows March 5th through March 10th.  Then the circus will be off to the Newark Prudential Center for shows March 13th through 19th, and then IZOD Meadowlands the 19th to the 23rd before heading south to Columbia, SC.

The order of venues this year is almost completely reversed compared to year's past.  Previously, they would play shows in New Jersey before coming to Long Island (then they would play in Brooklyn following that).  This year they're doing Brooklyn first then making their way through the rest of the region.

But anyways, we can expect the characteristic jaunt of the circus train to the Garden-Mitchell Secondary to happen either on Monday March 3rd or Tuesday March 4th, 2014.  It will probably go down a little differently this year since it is likely that half the train will already be in Long Island City for the Brooklyn shows, so we might even see two smaller runs out to Garden City instead of one long train like in year's past.

Since 2014 is an even year, Long Island will be getting the blue train (the red train comes on odd years). We're still a ways away from the actual events yet, so I'll have more details and more updates as we get closer to the event, but mark your calendars if you'd like to go watch it!