Every summer, the circus wagons from the museum in Baraboo travel by train to Milwaukee stopping at various communities along the way for the Great Circus parade.

While you can book tickets to sit on bleachers,arriving about two hours ahead of time enabled us to get a good place to watch just outside City Hall. There is a park'n'ride bus from the edge of the city.

Before the parade, families draw chalk circles on the roadway. They are betting where horse emissions will land as the parade goes by. Before the circus wagons, there is a parade of vintage vechiles including these penny farthing bicycles.

The parade includes the usual lions, tigers, camels and elephants. Giraffes were rarities, because they were fragile and difficult although not impossible to move by train. Strangely, on toy train sets, giraffe car models were the commonest circus cars.

Tableau wagons such as this one were designed to telescope down to a small size for travel on railroad cars, and then expand for the great day. These nine Percheron horses exude power.

Click here to take the Kenosha streetcar to see more of Wisconsin.

Click here to fly the crane to Wisconsin's Eagle State Park.

Click here to follow the circus back home to Baraboo.

Click here to take the New York Ferry to New York.

Click here to take the Hudson-Bergen tram to the contents page.