an advertising campaign featuring a cartoon character named "Choo-Choo Charlie," a child railroad engineer who appeared in ads featuring a jingle based on "The Ballad of Casey Jones". In an episode of Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels titled "The Legend of Devil's Run", the villain's name is Casey Jones. The 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman features a coarse cadence call about "Casey Jones" led by Gunnery Sgt. Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.) Casey Jones is mentioned in Caryl Phillips's stageplay The Shelter (1984). Casey Jones is the vigilante comrade of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. An episode of The Real Ghostbusters (titled Last Train To Oblivion) (1987) features the ghost of Casey Jones. He abducts Peter Venkman, and always yells at him for more coal. Peter eventually realizes that Jones wants to repeat the journey that killed him, so that he can avoid the collision this time. Neil Young's song "Southern Pacific" alludes to the Casey Jones legend by imagining a railroad engineer named "Mr. Jones" who meets a less heroic but in some ways a more tragic fate: when he turns 65 years old, he is compelled into retirement by the railroad company as "company policy." Tommy Lee Jones' character in the film The Fugitive mentions Casey Jones after the initial train crash of the movie. A 1993 episode of Shining Time Station called "Billy's Runaway Train", includes a play about Casey Jones. In 1997, The Green Bag published a poem by Brainerd Currie, Casey Jones Redivivus, about a man injured in a railroad accident. Museums in Casey Jones's honor The Historic Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum in Jackson, Tennessee Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum in Water Valley, Mississippi Casey Jones Railroad Museum State Park in Vaughan, Mississippi (Museum closed in 2004) References A History of Railroad Accidents, Safety Precautions and Operating Practices, by Robert B. Shaw. p290. (1978) External links Ballad of Casey Jones Photo of Sim Webb U.S. Postage stamp on Casey Jones Life Magazine Jan 26, 1942 story of Casey Jones 1863 births 1900 deaths 19th-century American people American people of Welsh descent Folklore of the Southern United States Illinois Central Railroad people Mississippi Blues Trail People from Fulton County, Kentucky People from Jackson, Tennessee Railway accident deaths in the United States Tall tales