Elephants in the Hood

Like an old time circus, Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth arrives in Baltimore
by train. The railroad track closest to the performance venue is on the property of the B & O
Railroad Museum. The elephants and horses disembark along the first public mile of track
ever laid in the United States, right next to the museum’s historic roundhouse.

They then walk a dozen or so blocks along Pratt Street through Southwest Baltimore to the
Mariner Arena, today’s version of the Big Top. Last night, I was lucky to catch this
unannounced procession—a sight to behold!





Elephants crossing Martin Luther King Boulevard en route to 1st Mariner Arena.
You can see the Raven’s M&T Stadium in the background.