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    Casey Jones is an American children's Western TV series that ran during the 1957-1958 television season, based around the pioneering western railroads.
    The series aired in syndication in the United States. Casey Jones aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom and on the Nine Network in Australia. The series is set in the late 19th century, featuring the adventures of railroad engineer Casey Jones and the crew of the Cannonball Express steam locomotive, fireman Wallie Sims and conductor Redrock Smith, working for the Midwest and Central Railroad. Casey lived in Midvale, a fictional town within commuting distance of St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife, Alice, their young son, Casey, Jr., and their dog Cinders. 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 his train, the Cannonball Express, and his fireman, Wallie. Kenneth Gamet, the producer of Casey Jones, offers a gentler Western series against the more violent adult shows of the time. Casey Jones features the same classical types of plots as other westerns such as train robbers and vandals, but the episodes center as much on Casey's interaction with his family, particularly Casey, Jr.

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  • @TheAtticradio
    @TheAtticradio Год назад +7

    Loved this when I was a child I knew the song well !! My brother and I would watch together.

  • @pauldrinkwater2621
    @pauldrinkwater2621 Год назад +10

    I remember watching this in the late 60s and early 70s. Brings back memories of me and my grandad together .

  • @jazzman1626
    @jazzman1626 3 месяца назад +2

    If I remember correctly correctly, we had this on telly on a Sunday with all of the family watching.

  • @weewheels4390
    @weewheels4390 Год назад +5

    Thanks for giving me some great childhood memories from the 1970s, here in Northern Ireland

  • @iscreemz4494
    @iscreemz4494 2 года назад +7

    I remember watching this on BBC as a kid in the early 70s.

  • @debkerr2393
    @debkerr2393 2 года назад +5

    I'm so glad I can still watch the reruns!, They don't make great shows like this anymore

  • @tonyp011
    @tonyp011 10 месяцев назад +11

    Casey jones steaming and a rolling, for anyone who doesn’t know what I mean is, Casey jones was an American railroad engineer who was killed when his steam locomotive collided with a stalled train, there was a tv series with Casey jones played by Alan Hale in the late 50s and was rerun on British tv in the 60s and was a weekly half hour series

  • @stephenwilliamson3538
    @stephenwilliamson3538 Год назад +1

    Childhood revisited. Loved all those b&w morning shows!

  • @davidbailey2884
    @davidbailey2884 4 года назад +5

    This fantastic series deserved a longer run

    • @Juliaflo
      @Juliaflo 3 года назад

      Don't figure out my age, LOLOLOL, but I remember this show. Stay safe.

  • @joetrefelis6362
    @joetrefelis6362 7 месяцев назад +3

    45 years of service as a Engineer watch C.J. as a kid .

  • @edwardoneil3962
    @edwardoneil3962 3 года назад +3

    How they managed to make only a few episodes I will never know 😀

  • @GenerationX1967
    @GenerationX1967 9 месяцев назад

    The theme song tune was also used for the old "Charlie Says" Good N Plenty animated commercial...

    • @jonathank8057
      @jonathank8057 9 месяцев назад +1

      "The Ballad of Casey Jones" is from 1909. Music by Eddie Newton; lyrics by Wallace Saunders and T. Lawrence Seibert.

  • @bobgoodwin2832
    @bobgoodwin2832 Год назад

    Just now was probably the first time I've seen this since it originally aired. Surprised at the syncopated rhythm of the music rather than straight time which would sound more like a locomotive. Well, they didn't ask me at the time!!

  • @hlsmcw
    @hlsmcw Год назад

    The boy who plays Casey's son looks to be a truer "little buddy" than Gilligan ever was lol

  • @seanwhalley2293
    @seanwhalley2293 Год назад

    I used like watching Casey Jones as a kid

  • @Juliaflo
    @Juliaflo 3 года назад +2

    The show just came to GetTV, but we don't have the experience of seeing the closing credits because they are shortened. This is disrespectful.

    • @chasesrailwaylinesrr6447
      @chasesrailwaylinesrr6447 3 года назад

      You can get full and all episodes on DVD on eBay also why does closing theme cut off on most episodes

    • @Juliaflo
      @Juliaflo Год назад

      @@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447 ...Because people either have shorter attention spans, or the higher-ups in Get TV have no regard for quality music. I really don't know.

  • @colamations5066
    @colamations5066 4 года назад +1

    R.I.P Casey Jones

  • @matthewwheeler64
    @matthewwheeler64 Год назад +1

    I have then all on DVD

  • @littleenglander.5029
    @littleenglander.5029 3 года назад +2

    I thought the words ro the song were "Casey Jones Orders in his hand when you hear the tooting of the whistle . . . .

  • @benknaup5128
    @benknaup5128 2 года назад

    thank you

  • @youngeuphonium2087
    @youngeuphonium2087 2 года назад +1

    I love this show but there is a goof in the part where Casey jr is pulling the whistle he kept pulling down on it and it only gave one toot but if this were real the whistle would have kept blowing until Casey jr let go of the cord also in some episode it changes from a whistle cord to a whistle lever

  • @John-k1o5f
    @John-k1o5f 6 месяцев назад +1

    🌏the forever engineer

  • @elmerlarimer9026
    @elmerlarimer9026 8 лет назад +6

    emerson scott larimer 1870-1948

  • @josephnadler5521
    @josephnadler5521 4 года назад +1

    We need this in full color

  • @johnvarney5740
    @johnvarney5740 4 года назад

    1:08

  • @jamiegreenwood212
    @jamiegreenwood212 4 года назад

    Who sang this I wonder?

  • @kerravon4159
    @kerravon4159 2 года назад +21

    My earliest ambition is that when I grew up I wanted to be Casey Jones. I failed.

    • @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
      @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory Год назад +5

      You only need a high school diploma to become a railroad engineer
      They train you on site, and you can work your way up.
      You can do it.

    • @Kalle7075
      @Kalle7075 6 месяцев назад +1

      I agree, do not give up your dreams.

    • @magicguystudios7940
      @magicguystudios7940 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory just a high school diploma??!!!?

    • @oldgaffer9212
      @oldgaffer9212 5 месяцев назад +1

      Did you go off track?

    • @Kalle7075
      @Kalle7075 5 месяцев назад

      @@oldgaffer9212 What do you mean?

  • @francishuddy9462
    @francishuddy9462 Год назад +11

    This was a wonderful American TV series. They used to show it on British TV back in the 1970s and early 1980s, in the afternoon during the school holidays. And, back in about 1983, there used to be a takeaway hamburger restaurant at Charing Cross railway station, London, named Casey Jones. In the corner, by the exit for Villiers Street. Casey Jones takeaway restaurants were in most big railway stations (Waterloo, Euston, Liverpool Street, Victoria, etc.). Actually, their burgers were really good, as well.

    • @suecondon1685
      @suecondon1685 4 месяца назад +1

      Yes! I'm actually stunned to find it's so old, as it was a highlight for me on English TV early 70's 😊

  • @peternall6566
    @peternall6566 3 года назад +36

    This programme is the first and only memory I've got of sitting on my dads knee watching TV.
    Wow. 51 years ago. A very happy memory. Thank you so much for uploading it to RUclips.

  • @iowaguy6470
    @iowaguy6470 2 года назад +3

    I believe this locomotive is the hooterville cannonball

  • @paulwilliams9207
    @paulwilliams9207 5 лет назад +42

    Used to love this when we were kids. Happy memories of happier days.

  • @vicjones3992
    @vicjones3992 3 года назад +34

    I loved this show when I was a little boy - used to watch it with my Grandfather Tom(Jones) who drove the massive Coronations for the LMS

  • @josephschuster1494
    @josephschuster1494 2 месяца назад +2

    My brother and I were, and still are, avid railroad fans, and this show had us in front of the television for EVERY episode.
    Thank you for placing this show on RUclips for our enjoyment! 🚂

  • @lazylaurablue
    @lazylaurablue Год назад +5

    I don't know why this suddenly popped into my head, but even the tune as well as the name. I remember watching this as a kid. Must have been a repeat because I wasn't born until 1958.

  • @graeme9184
    @graeme9184 4 года назад +28

    I was a mid 60s kid & loved this series.
    I worked in the machining industry for years & while arguing with one of the technical so called experts from the office about why we couldn't make what he wanted with the equipment we had, He glared at me & said " don't tell me it can't be done I'm an engineer ! "
    My reply was " so was Casey Jones & all he did was toot the whistle ! "
    He had never seen or heard of him so the comment was lost on him.
    University gives qualifications not ability to use them....

    • @maxpinson5002
      @maxpinson5002 3 года назад +3

      That's a big part of what's wrong with everything these days
      Hiring should be based on merit
      and affinity for the job

    • @tonyp011
      @tonyp011 10 месяцев назад

      I enjoyed watching this in the 60s as my own dad was a steam locomotive driver promoted from being a fireman

    • @tonyp011
      @tonyp011 10 месяцев назад

      It’s a pity the Casey jones series isn’t seen on line for free as I would love to watch the series again

  • @jessesands4099
    @jessesands4099 5 лет назад +18

    Another gem from the golden years of television!😀🚂🛤️📺

  • @jessesands4099
    @jessesands4099 4 года назад +14

    It's literally been nearly 40 years since I've seen Casey Jones on TV!🤔🚂🛤️👩‍🔧📺🇺🇸

  • @lollipop0220
    @lollipop0220 Год назад +4

    When you hear the tootin' of the whistle, it's Casey at the throttle of the Cannonball Express. Great memories.

  • @camerrill
    @camerrill 3 года назад +13

    I remember THIS! I was 2 and 3 years old then. I can still sing along!

  • @marian6593
    @marian6593 Год назад +2

    What I''d give to return to those innocent times...

  • @juliaread9115
    @juliaread9115 5 лет назад +24

    Awe fond memories of this series. Used to sing the the theme song as a kid.

    • @Juliaflo
      @Juliaflo 3 года назад

      I guess you are older than I am; I remember this series from my childhood.
      Don't go figuring out my age, now. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.

  • @robertfinnan9113
    @robertfinnan9113 5 лет назад +15

    Have always liked watching Casey Jones, love the tune of Casey Jones start and finish.

  • @ZAV1944
    @ZAV1944 3 года назад +4

    All true railfans know that the actual Star of the show was Sierra Railway No. 3.

  • @kenkemzura903
    @kenkemzura903 2 года назад +9

    I remember watching this show in 1958! One of my fondest memories at age 3. This show, living a block away from a railroad crossing, and a local children's program ( Cartoon Express with Engineer Bill Stulla ) sent me on the path to being a life long railfan.

  • @Straswa
    @Straswa 5 лет назад +20

    Just discovered this series. Great stuff.

  • @luisalvarez23
    @luisalvarez23 3 года назад +4

    Yall do realize Casey Jones was a real person right ? but his Real name was John Luther Jones and his nickname was Casey . he died in a collusion on the Illinois Central in Vaughn Ms. in 1900

    • @robertferguson5562
      @robertferguson5562 3 года назад

      Yes , he tragically died in Mississippi.

    • @gabrielbennett5162
      @gabrielbennett5162 3 года назад

      Yup. It's in Yazoo County, about 2 hours south of me (I live in Lee County). Not much there now.

    • @JeanWalmsley-q2f
      @JeanWalmsley-q2f 10 месяцев назад

      Yes an amazing story

  • @shanelawson5072
    @shanelawson5072 Год назад +2

    Hey! McHale can drive a train too⁉️
    Actually I'm wrong... That was Ernest Borgnine.
    It's the Skipper from Gilligan's Island here❗

  • @regsymes1377
    @regsymes1377 Год назад +3

    A truly underated classic

  • @class28studios78
    @class28studios78 3 года назад +5

    A railroading legend

  • @jtownshend
    @jtownshend 7 лет назад +14

    I was crazy about this series! The first time I saw a train, I was so disappointed. Neither did it look nor it sounded as Casey Jones's locomotive!

    • @rominacoronado1700
      @rominacoronado1700 7 лет назад +2

      jtownshend i call my biskle cannonball No1

    • @MJC19
      @MJC19 6 лет назад +3

      It's a show from the 50s what were you expecting?

    • @jtownshend
      @jtownshend 3 года назад +3

      @Aqua Fyre I didn't mention, but I was a 6 year old child. My mom was taking me and my sister from school and she pointed out saying: look, there's a train! I looked and looked and couldn't see one. Of course, I thought all trains were like Casey's, that is why I was disappointed after seing a diesel locomotive. It was more like a monster to me.

    • @davefrompa5334
      @davefrompa5334 3 года назад

      @Aqua Fyre The song was based on a real guy

    • @kenkemzura903
      @kenkemzura903 2 года назад +1

      I understand how you felt. I lived a block away from a railroad crossing and noticed the same thing. My first time seeing a static steam engine was when I too was six. I was pretty excited to see that and a strange feeling came over me that they looked familiar and felt a kinship towards them. Maybe I worked for the railroad in a past life. 😉😄. It was many years later that I learned why they switched to diesels and been a life long rail buff.

  • @jessesands4099
    @jessesands4099 5 лет назад +16

    Just have to get this series on DVD!🚂🛤️

    • @BeingRomans829ed
      @BeingRomans829ed 3 года назад +1

      I got mine on eBay. There is no regular company like CBS DVD producing the series, but the outfit that made mine did a good job. It's public domain I believe, so it's ok for them to do it.

    • @ClassicTVMan1981X
      @ClassicTVMan1981X 2 года назад

      In this case, it would be either Sony Pictures Home Entertainment or Shout! Factory.

  • @chrisbryant8646
    @chrisbryant8646 3 года назад +3

    That's how most of us are right now!!! Wi love from Bonnie Scotland

  • @franzkafka4046
    @franzkafka4046 6 лет назад +10

    I didn't know they had railroad tracks on Gilligan's island

    • @stevencameronmckelvey-vaug2953
      @stevencameronmckelvey-vaug2953 5 лет назад +4

      It’s the same train used in Petticoat Junction and the same track. Train used in many other movies too.

    • @petermaxwell2965
      @petermaxwell2965 5 лет назад +2

      Yeah, made from coconut palms ! 😁

    • @BeingRomans829ed
      @BeingRomans829ed 3 года назад +1

      Trains or boats, he's still The Skipper.

    • @robertknight4672
      @robertknight4672 2 года назад

      @@stevencameronmckelvey-vaug2953 It also appears in Back to the Future 3. To not ruin the movie I have decided to refrain from revealing the locomotives actual top speed.

    • @Docterry
      @Docterry 5 месяцев назад

      @@robertknight4672 88 MPH?

  • @barbarabutterfield2679
    @barbarabutterfield2679 4 года назад +5

    I always remembered the theme song!

  • @sjchan3199
    @sjchan3199 2 года назад +2

    Loved this prog wen i was a kid brings back memories. My brother n i used to sing this

  • @dangerboyproductions1223
    @dangerboyproductions1223 2 года назад +1

    So many great fond memories of casey jones but sadly he died from nasty accident #restpeacecaseyjones

  • @ross4970
    @ross4970 2 месяца назад +1

    Watched this as a kid in Australia, possibly early 70s. Loved it.

  • @mickwilson99
    @mickwilson99 4 месяца назад +1

    As a five-year-old I named my first (black) cat Casey.

  • @l.salisbury1253
    @l.salisbury1253 Год назад +4

    0:19 - THE SKIPPER?!?!?!

    • @richardranke3158
      @richardranke3158 Год назад +2

      I knew Gilligan and Mr. Howell had regular roles before the island...but the Skipper,too?
      Seriously I vaguely remember the Casey Jones show from when I was 4 or 5,and the theme song has been used and parodied in many other shows and ads.

  • @scarfhs1
    @scarfhs1 5 лет назад +8

    Casey Jones Steaming and a rolling,
    Casey Jones Kicked out the pub again

  • @elmerlarimer9026
    @elmerlarimer9026 8 лет назад +5

    chasles a larimer 1911-2002

  • @jtownshend
    @jtownshend 7 лет назад +13

    Casey Jones was aired here in Brazil sometimes in syndication, sometimes as a rerun by a local TV station.

  • @Guy4755
    @Guy4755 8 лет назад +5

    Starring Dub Taylor? Dang!

  • @philforbes7467
    @philforbes7467 3 года назад +2

    From a time we can only dream will come again

  • @jacobhinojosa6462
    @jacobhinojosa6462 4 года назад +4

    Good ole Casey Jones he’s famous for railroad engineer ❤️🚂🛤

    • @RyansArachnids
      @RyansArachnids 3 года назад +1

      Aye he died in a crash protected the passengers,

  • @nick5062
    @nick5062 3 месяца назад +1

    As a kid I loved this show so much that my first pet, a rabbit, was called Casey Jones. That tune has been in the back of my head for over 50 years and still reappears from time to time. However, somehow my brain transformed the lyrics to "Casey Jones, steaming like a loco". Thanks for the memories.

  • @margaretferguson1388
    @margaretferguson1388 Год назад +1

    Loved this Paul

  • @berniecom728
    @berniecom728 2 года назад +1

    Boy do I remember that show I was 9 years old, yes do the math I'm 73, It was a shot run Tv show but is was great.

    • @Juliaflo
      @Juliaflo Год назад

      I remember this show so distinctly--and THIS is how I most remember Alan Hale, Jr. (or fils, as they say in French).

  • @jessejohn9981
    @jessejohn9981 2 года назад +1

    my dad reccomended i should watch this tv show in like 2017 so i watched it. he said he watched it in the 80s. this is one of the best tv shows ever.

  • @SusanJones-q4d
    @SusanJones-q4d 8 месяцев назад +1

    My grandaughters name is Kacey Jones

  • @worldcomicsreview354
    @worldcomicsreview354 3 года назад +1

    I very vaguely remember seeing this on TV in the early 90's, up until today, when I randomly decided to google, I thought Casey Jones had been the train's name!

  • @charliemcgraffin390
    @charliemcgraffin390 Год назад

    00:00:04 Pump Your Pistons Coz Your Gonna Hear, A Brand New Story About A Brave E2 Class, It's The Biggest Movie I Ever Made, Number One Is In His Tanks, Thomas Is His Name, Thomas & Friends, steaming and a rolling, Thomas & Friends, You Never Have To Guess, if You Hear The Tooting Of The Whistle, It's Thomas The Tank Engine Here To Save The World From Doom. Thomas & Friends, Steaming And A Rolling, Thomas & Friends, You Never Have To Guess, If You Hear The Tooting Of The Whistle, It's Thomas The Tank Engine In Phantom Of The Opera.

  • @d803albion
    @d803albion 3 года назад +1

    Brilliant! Happy days thanks for sharing

  • @theblitz9
    @theblitz9 2 года назад +1

    Remember this from the mid-late 60s.
    Shows how good it was that it was worth the reruns.

  • @richardmartins1541
    @richardmartins1541 2 года назад +1

    Damn I remember the show and the song watched that as a boy in the late 60s fantastic memories

  • @beinzgoofensmirtz
    @beinzgoofensmirtz 2 года назад +1

    if this is casey jones THEN WHERES SIM WEBB

  • @elmerlarimer9026
    @elmerlarimer9026 8 лет назад +5

    chasles a larimer 1911-2002

  • @Kalle7075
    @Kalle7075 6 месяцев назад

    I wish that this song still was out on Spotify. But sadly it is not anymore.

  • @elmerlarimer9026
    @elmerlarimer9026 7 лет назад +4

    good show

  • @stuartleatham2917
    @stuartleatham2917 4 года назад +2

    Got the dvd set

  • @mgithaiga1
    @mgithaiga1 5 дней назад

    I haven't heard this song since in was in primary school

  • @freeagent8225
    @freeagent8225 11 месяцев назад

    This show was only cancelled due to global warming😅.

  • @MrFallon321
    @MrFallon321 2 года назад +1

    I saw it the second time around. Very cool.

  • @elmerlarimer9026
    @elmerlarimer9026 8 лет назад +3

    good show

  • @BOLLOX64
    @BOLLOX64 Месяц назад

    Used to watch this in the late sixties (UK). Loved it.

  • @chrisnewman7281
    @chrisnewman7281 3 года назад +1

    Before he swapped his train for a boat

  • @ALKAHESTBOY
    @ALKAHESTBOY 4 месяца назад

    Bobby Clark was a great talent.

  • @maureenoneill2847
    @maureenoneill2847 2 года назад

    They acknowledged by Casey Jones Maureen new conductor hat she was allowed to sign for our #668 allowance by that route over time of distress

  • @eddymadison9655
    @eddymadison9655 2 года назад

    I'm guessing this show had nothing to do with a *mask wearing vigilante who fight crime with 4 anthropomorphic turtles* right lol 😅

  • @maureenoneill2847
    @maureenoneill2847 2 года назад

    Cannonball express fired their cannon by magic shop Canon today's game

  • @lrberg1206
    @lrberg1206 Год назад

    Never heard of it even in the 60's

  • @ianmclaughlan
    @ianmclaughlan 3 года назад +1

    I watched it when the film was 11 years old at a hospital in Stratford upon Avon in 1968

    • @Juliaflo
      @Juliaflo 3 года назад

      Shakespeare country, right?

    • @ianmclaughlan
      @ianmclaughlan 3 года назад

      Yes in Birmingham Road now pulled down in the 1980s

  • @JohnSnow-jt4lm
    @JohnSnow-jt4lm 3 месяца назад

    He is reatering from new 8

  • @Peak_WIS
    @Peak_WIS 9 месяцев назад

    I'm the newest comment

  • @mickbuxton5718
    @mickbuxton5718 14 дней назад

    Great days.

  • @theopoiesis
    @theopoiesis 4 года назад +1

    I thought Casey Jones was a TMNT character

    • @robertferguson5562
      @robertferguson5562 3 года назад +1

      Yes, but engineer casey jones been round alot longer.

  • @stevejeffries1603
    @stevejeffries1603 4 месяца назад

    It's so British lol

  • @sanjanewmoonlife
    @sanjanewmoonlife 3 года назад +1

    Lovely, I love all these old movies.

  • @lonihanson9124
    @lonihanson9124 3 года назад

    When did you train crossing the first time isCajuns

  • @cameronstevenson7138
    @cameronstevenson7138 4 года назад

    Strange hasnt been on 1 of the sky channels