Casey Jones…Steamin’ and a-rollin’…
Casey Jones…You never have to guess…
When you hear…the tootin’ of the whistle…
That it’s Casey at the throttle of the “Cannonball Express”…!!
(Sign of a misspent youth, remembering TV theme songs…!![^o)])
May your freight ALWAYS roll smoothly…and ON TIME!!
For some reason I had never heard of this TV show. Had it been airing in my local area, I would have. In the Twin Cities here in Minnesota we had a kid’s show called “Lunch with Casey Jones”. The actor who played Casey was Roger Awsumb and of course he had a “Side Kick” named Roundhouse Rodney played by Lynn Dwyer. The show was a staple for pre-schools kids and had LoonyToons and Hanna Barbara cartoons and the Claymation Gumby shows (whatever in the heck Gumby was supposed to be)?
I brought this up thinking that Roger Awsumb and Alan Hale Jr. could maybe be mistaken for each other. However, I have proven to myself that there were two Casey Jones shows for kids.
Simply put you would be fired if you did that.
Real railroading is gone replaced by hampering rules and regulations railroading where you must stop before making a joint to ensure the knuckles is open.You even need a tool to set or release a brake wheel…There’s a peeking tommy watching your every move you make and making a minor mistake can cost you your job or some street time.
Mark Here ya go.
The actor who played Alan Hale’s fireman was Dub Taylor, and he sure didn’t look like Sim Webb!
“Simply put you would be fired if you did that.” -Brakie
Of that i have no doubt. So much has changed in the last 40 years that ya cant even ride the cab no more. Theres no one to wave to that waves back, and railroads dont hire foamers. Thus, why im not a railroader.
Douglas
Douglas,The majority of the engineers I worked with on the PRR was former steam locomotive throttle masters and they knew how to get every bit of horse power out of their locomotive(s) and they knew how long they could peg the needle in the red zone before damage would accrue.The beauty is how they ran their engines by sound and feel.They would know if their engines wasn’t working quite right just by the sound.
IMHO the younger (none steam era) engineers on the Chessie(C&O) had lost a lot of that skill.Pity.
Here you go. Somehow that show seems familiar to me.
I did not remember that the fireman played by Dub Taylor was named Wallie Sims. That sounds like a combination of the name of Sim Webb, Casey’s actual fireman, and Wallace Saunders, who wrote the original song. Who’da thunk it?
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I used to work the loading dock of a large discount store and unloaded lots of trucks. I can remember numerous time raising the back door of the trailer and having merchandise spill out which had toppled from the pallets because of a clumsy driver. I imagine hard coupling would do the same thing to the contents of a boxcar.