Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Royal American Shows early 1950's #2



Kiddie Jeep Wagon #46. Posted by Picasa

Posted by Buckles at 12/26/2006 06:23:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

When we received the two Donicker wagons from Royal that had been state of the art [for those days] on Ringling, Cappie immediately had them painted and fixed up. Again they were in good shape. They had been sei-trailers fitted for circus use and had dual baloon tires. They would be the rest rooms on the parade grounds. No more porta pots. Chappie insisted that all our efforts were a re-creation of circus history in the minuted detail. He wouldn't allow those plastic horse watering buckets on the property, and I was with him 100 PC. So we used them on the parade grounds and the person assigned to have them pumped out forgot to call a pump outer and on loading the train [yes I was the trainmaster] I became aware of that and in looking at the loading order at the crossing I became aware that the with the cat pulling them would end up on one of the weaker flats that we were aware of. I immediately asked 83 yr old Deacon Blanchfield, who was busy driving a Cat if he had ever seen a loadd flat collapse and he nodded to the affirmative, so I immediately switched two flats with a light load on the one and the hravy load full of shit on the other. The rest of the story is that the next day unloading in Baraboo the deck crew and deck polars were not to happy with shit all over the flat from slopping around over the top of the tanks on the rocking and rolling train trip. It proves my thought that every minute of the circus is a crises and sometime the impossible takes about five minutes longer. Incidentally when the wagones were on display and use in Milwaukee the sign in front said rest rooms to the general public but for the rest of us they were DONICKERS.

26 December, 2006 09:47
Anonymous said...

there were many nights that they stopped along the road by a catch basin and rested for a bit so that would not happen on the train

26 December, 2006 13:51

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