Season 1 • Episode 32
LatestAlice Jones is concerned at the constant risks Casey takes as an engineer and persuades him to accept promotion to District Manager. When fifty people are stranded by a forest fire, the new engineer refuses to risk taking the Cannonball out to rescue them, leaving Casey faced with a difficult decision.
Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express".
Acting
Alan Hale Jr.'s booming, lovable presence before he was the Skipper.
Production
Genuine steam locomotives, not cheap backlot trains.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Casey Jones died in a 1900 train collision, making this family comedy... an interesting choice.
This rode the 1950s Western TV boom and helped cement the folk hero as a children's icon.
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