So it was with John Luther “Casey” Jones, a top-notch locomotive engineer on the Illinois Central Railroad who, in the early morning of April 30, 1900, while doing his mighty best to avoid a ...

Engineer Jones of the passenger train, who lost his life in the accident, was alone responsible,’ read the company’s accident report. The matter was forgotten,” he writes.

I t’s been 115 years since the fateful morning — April 30, 1900 — when railroad engineer John Luther Jones, called “Casey” after his hometown of Cayce, Ky., agreed to drive an extra ...

There was only one Casey Jones, a heroic rail-riding man, memorialized in ballads as ”a brave engineer.” To the delight of American rail fans, there are two Casey Jones museums-one just north ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Casey Jones is a beloved part of KARE 11's past and a Twin Cities TV icon. The real Casey Jones was a railroad engineer who died a hero in the year 1900. But in the 1950s ...

Engineer Casey Jones has been following the commuter crisis from months, examining public records for his YouTube channel. Once physical construction work begins, ...

Casey Jones Allan Drummond. Farrar Straus Giroux, $16 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-374-31175-9. Heroic train engineer Casey Jones gets star treatment in this spirited picture book. ""Listen!/ ...

Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express". Casey Jones Season 1 aired on October 8th, 1957.

Roger Awsumb, 74, who starred as Casey Jones in a series of children’s shows on Twin Cities television from the 1950s into the early ’70s, died Monday in Brainerd, Minn. Mr. Awsumb had been in ...