Almost every American at some time has heard the ballad about the legendary railroad engineer and hero Casey Jones. But many may not realize that the song tells an essentially true story. The home where John Luther Jones (nicknamed Casey because he hailed from Cayce, KY) lived with his family in Jackson is now part of the Casey Jones Home and Railroad Museum, which pays tribute to the man who on a fateful night in 1900, saved the lives of all the passengers on his train by staying on the throttle and brake until he crashed into a freight train stalled on the track near Vaughan, Mississippi.
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