casey jones

     

In 2000 Jackson, Tennessee's Railroad Museum celebrates the centennial of this engineer's heroic deed

Trivia about casey jones

  • Immortalized in song, this engineer of the Cannonball Express died in a 1900 crash, saving everyone aboard
  • John was the real first name of this locomotive engineer celebrated in ballad & song
  • According to the ballad, "'Twas on the Illinois central that" this engineer "won his fame"
  • On April 30, 1900 he died bravely with one hand on the brake lever of the Cannonball Express
  • "Trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind" (Now we see who's the Deadhead)
  • A poem about him begins, "Come, all you rounders, if you want to hear a story 'bout a brave engineer"
  • On April 30, 1900 this engineer gave his life in a train crash to save his passengers; his name would live on in ballads
  • The "Literature Lover's Book of Lists" says this engineer "blew his train whistle in a special way"
  • You can buy RR souvenirs at the Tennessee home where this engineer lived at the time of his 1900 death

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