12-29-2008, 11:38 AM
I think you are right about it being handled just like a passenger train. I think the emphasis on the circus train was on what makes it different from the other trains he rode, which has to do with the train itself not so much the locomotives used to pull it. It also focused on the amount of work needed to get the circus packed up, loaded, moved to the next city, unloaded, and set up. The cab ride would probably not have been any different from his ride on the Empire Builder.