Casey Jones Media References
- A 1927 movie, Casey Jones (1927), starred Ralph Lewis as Casey Jones, Kate Price as his wife, and a young Jason Robards Sr. as Casey Jones, Jr.
- In 1950 The Walt Disney Company made a new animated cartoon based on Casey Jones, entitled The Brave Engineer.
- Casey Jones was a television series loosely based on Jones' legend. It starred Alan Hale, Jr. as Casey Jones; Hale would later become well remembered for his role as "The Skipper" on the TV series Gilligan's Island.
- The 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman features a coarse cadence call about "Casey Jones" led by Sgt. Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.)
- Casey Jones is the vigilante comrade of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- An episode of The Real Ghostbusters (titled Last Train To Oblivion) (1987) features the ghost of Casey Jones. He abducts Peter Venkman, and always yells at him for more coal. Peter eventually realizes that Jones wants to repeat the journey that killed him, so that he can avoid the collision this time.
- A PS3 trophy called Casey Jones for the video game inFamous, is awarded for performing a stunt on a train.
- "Casey Jones" is a cheat in the video game Railroad Tycoon II to instantly destroy all enemy trains.
- Neil Young's song "Southern Pacific" alludes to the Casey Jones legend by imagining a railroad engineer named "Mr. Jones" who meets a less heroic but in some ways a more tragic fate: when he turns 65 years old, he is compelled into retirement by the railroad company as "company policy."
- In the Season 5, Episode 3 (2011) of 'The Big Bang Theory', Leonard asks Sheldon "Rough night, Casey Jones?" when he complains about his experience at a model train shop.
- Johnny Cash song "Casey Jones" about 1960's in 'Folsom Prison Blues' album.
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“Poor Casey Jones he was all right,
He stuck by his duty both day an’ night,”
—Unknown. Casey Jones. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
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“Casey Jones, mounted to the cabin,
Casey Jones, throttle in his hand,
Casey Jones mounted to the cabin,
Took his farewell journey to the Promised Land.”
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