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
He wasn't actually a scab, he sacrificed himself trying to prevent a train crash that could have been much worse. The Pete Seeger song is a parody of the folk ballads praising him that spread up and down the railway after his death. He should be honoured as a working class hero
He wouldn't have had to if he didn't scab. Glad he died to prevent actually innocent deaths then. But if it's a fictionalized version of the story then only glad the fictionalized scab version died
