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Casey Jones is an American Western television series syndicated during the 1957–58 television season. It was based upon the life of late 19th-century engineer Casey Jones in the era of pioneering western railroads. Casey Jones also aired on both the BBC and ITV in the United Kingdom and on the Seven Network in Australia.
Casey Jones: With Alan Hale Jr., Bobby Clark, Eddy Waller, Dub Taylor. Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express".
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Mar 5, 2016 · Although there really was a famous locomotive engineer named Casey Jones of the Illinois Central, the television series is only very loosely based on him. However, it uses the real names of...
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Casey Jones is an American Western series that ran during the 1957–58 television season, based around the pioneering western railroads.
After an old prospector is shot by an outlaw to steal his treasure map, Casey helps the sheriff catch the murderer, but then later discovers that the villain is the wayward son of carpenter Pete Dunlap, one of Casey's best friends.
Casey volunteers to transport a cargo of nitroglycerine on board the Cannonball Express to rescue ten men trapped in a mining accident - but aboard the train is a man bent on a different mission in another race against time.
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