Casey Jones
Heroic train driver
Casey Jones is an American folk hero, a railroad engineer who died in 1900 trying to slow his train before a collision, saving his passengers while becoming the only fatality.
The ballad that followed made his name synonymous with locomotive engineers and railroad lore.
He pulled a Casey Jones and stayed at the controls until the end.
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