Just a reminder that the real Casey Jones was a proletarian hero that sacrificed himself trying to stop the passenger train he was operating from crashing full speed into the rear of another. He was also a dues-paying union man and not a scab. He could have saved himself by jumping from the cab, and he ordered his fireman to do so saving his life, but he manned his post and applied the breaks until the end. He was the only fatality in a collision that could have been much worse.
The Pete Seeger song is good but in life Casey Jones was more than a hero, he was a union man
Just a reminder that the real Casey Jones was a proletarian hero that sacrificed himself trying to stop the passenger train he was operating from crashing full speed into the rear of another. He was also a dues-paying union man and not a scab. He could have saved himself by jumping from the cab, and he ordered his fireman to do so saving his life, but he manned his post and applied the breaks until the end. He was the only fatality in a collision that could have been much worse.
The Pete Seeger song is good but in life Casey Jones was more than a hero, he was a union man