found this on youtube not to long ago

[Khonda714]

I found this old cartoon not to long ago thought I would share it with all of you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbTBk4pDIHA&feature=player_embedded

 

[nateL]

haha thats pretty cool. I wonder if Casey Jones was a real person...he seems to be the topic of most railroad tall tails...hmmmm

 

[bnsf971]

I wonder if Casey Jones was a real person...

John Luther Jones was indeed a real person. He was from Cayce, Kentucky.

 

[Trouble]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

The railroad didn't like Casey much. He had wrecked a couple of thrie engines and wasn't on time some of the time and frequently bent the rules, but he got away with it because he usually made it through. Railroad management at that time was such that if you could get the job done even if you broke some rules management loved you. If not or if you were killed in a wreck they wrote you off and put the blame on your breaking of the rules.

 

[Trouble]

The railroad didn't like Casey much. He had wrecked a couple of thrie engines and wasn't on time some of the time and frequently bent the rules, but he got away with it because he usually made it through. Railroad management at that time was such that if you could get the job done even if you broke some rules management loved you. If not or if you were killed in a wreck they wrote you off and put the blame on your breaking of the rules.

yeah, that hasn't really changed much... if everyone took as long as they are supposed to setting or releasing handbrakes, or inspecting a switch before throwing it, or any of the other hundred rules you have to "bend" to move a train, nothing would get done. even into the 70's, the rule book was the size of one of those little pocket notebooks, and only the big cardinal rules mattered. i've heard stories from old heads and current officers of cutting out the black boxes and shutting off the train control so they could run over the limit if they were on a quit, or wanted to keep moving at speed right up to a signal. took almost a hundred years to break that mentality of pushing your luck!