Casey Jones Question

[Deggesty]

Bucyrus

link:

http://www.watervalley.net/users/caseyjones/casey.htm

If you go to the link, you can click on the following link, "Vaughn--a sad look", which will tell you that the artifacts were moved to Water Valley [Mississippi].  

According to  A Treasury of Railroad Folklore, IC #1 was known as the New Orleans Special, and #2 was known as the Chicago Fast Mail. After WWII, these numbers were assigned to a new schedule, the City of New Orleans.

Johnny

[Anonymous]

I found this rather interesting link:

http://www.watervalley.net/users/caseyjones/casey.htm

Apparently the museum has been moved, but I did not read all the details.  There is a part of the link that looks at the Vaughn site and old museum.  Was the museum there the old Vaughn depot?  If so, it would be a shame to lose it from abandonment or neglect.  They talk about the wreck site being littered with dumpsters, but I don't understand that.

I like that 1900 era.  Apparently Casey's train was not actually called the Cannonball.  That was just a term used by a newpaper report as a generic term for any fast train of that period.  The train eventually was named The City of New Orleans.

[Beach Bill]

For the Centennial of Casey Jones' crash, I visited the Casey Jones Museum in Vaughn, Mississippi.  The museum collection included a cracked locomotive bell that had reportedly come from a nearby farm.  While it was not certain that this was the bell from Casey's 4-6-0, it "fit" the legend and was a nice "touchable" momento.

A couple years later, I found that the Vaughn museum was completely abandoned.  Does anyone know what happened to the collection - specifically what happened to that bell??

Bill