The state of North Carolina ... railroad cars were being auctioned.The Raleigh News & Observer reported Friday that the N.C. Department of Transportation had originally put 16 cars up for sale ...

Three years ago, the state Department of Transportation bought nine railroad cars from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, thinking it would one day refurbish them and use them on the ...

RALEIGH — The state of North Carolina ... Of the cars being offered, the priciest was built for the U.S. Army as a hospital car in 1953 and was more recently used by CSX railroad as a training ...

NCDOT bought the nine railroad cars from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 2017 for $383,000. It planned to have the cars refurbished and used on the Piedmont, the passenger train ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state of North Carolina ... cars up for sale last month. And it received offers for two passenger cars built in the 1960s. Jason Orthner, director of NCDOT’s Rail ...

and Barnum & Bailey Circus train cars stashed in the North Carolina woods has come to an ... The state has routinely bought and refurbished used rail cars for the Piedmont; all the passenger ...