Casey Jones mounted to the cabin.
Casey Jones, with his orders in his hand.
Casey Jones mounted to the cabin.
And he took his farewell trip to the promised land.
Last week to the grave in Jackson, Tenn. of John Luther Jones, folk hero of U.S. railroading, went fans from far & wide. The occasion: the 50th anniversary of the murky night when "Casey" Jones* died with his hand on the brake of the Illinois Central's crack Cannonball Express as it plowed into a freight train at Vaughan, Miss.
In Engineer Jones's honor, the Jackson post...
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