The Brave Engineer is a 1950 Walt Disney-produced animated short film, based on the exploits of legendary railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones. It is narrated by comic Jerry Colonna and is a comedically madcap fanciful re-telling of the story related in the Wallace Saunders ballad, later made famous by Eddie Newton and T. Lawrence Seibert. It was also released fifty years after Jones was killed. This short has appeared on many television programs and specials such as Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1954), The Mouse Factory (1972), Good Morning, Mickey! (1983), Walt Disney Cartoon Classics (1983), DTV (1984), American Folk Heroes (1985), Disney's Sing Along Songs (1986), Disney's Rootin' Tootin' Roundup (1990), Mickey's Mouse Tracks (1992), Donald's Quack Attack (1992), Sing Me a Story with Belle (1995), The Ink and Paint Club (1997), Walt Disney Treasures (2001), and Disney's American Legends (2001). Plot The cartoon opens to a railroad yard where "all the trains are fast asleep." The sun rises, and engineer Casey Jones wakes from his slumber in the cab of his engine, Johnny, No. 2, an American Standard 4-4-0 tender engine that is hauling a train consisting of a mail car and the No. 53 four wheel caboose known as the Western Mail. His train begins the journey, and Casey is intent on making his schedule at all costs. The Western Mail is repeatedly delayed along the journey. Casey is confronted by a variety of obstacles along the way. He has to paddle his train through flooded wetlands, stop for a cow crossing the tracks, and save a woman who was tied up on the tracks by a stereotypical villain character. Another villain destroys a span of tracks on a trestle, and as Casey has to get the Western Mail across a gorge without those tracks, his train heads on into a dry desert cannon. He fights off a group of criminals, who climb onto the cab of Johnny in an attempt to rob the train. To make up for lost time, Casey runs Johnny well past his mechanical limits, plowing through two tunnels (One which exploded & the last one didn't), passing a five mile sign causing it & the tracks to melt. While focusing completely on repairing Johnny, he drives the Western Mail at full speed down a hill on a collision course with another train, which is a double-headed slow freight train with