The Brave Engineer

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, that is hauling a mail car and a caboose. His train begins the journey, and Casey is intent on making his schedule, at all costs since the word "Egad!" is said multiple times. The train is repeatedly delayed along the journey. Casey has to paddle his train through flooded wetlands, stops for a cow crossing the tracks, saves a woman who was tied up on the tracks by a stereotypical villain character, gets the train across a gorge after another villain destroyed the tracks spanning it, and fights a group of criminals who had climbed onto the cab of the engine, and failed to rob the train. To make up for lost time, Casey runs his engine well past his mechanical limits, and while focusing completely on repairing Johnny, drives his train at full speed down a hill into another train being a double headed slow freight train with Zeb and Zeek, two 4-8-0 Mastodon engines both No. 77 and No. 5, who are approaching his mail train on the same track without noticing until too late when the two trains collide with a large explosion after the conductor, who runs up to tell him about the oncoming train, fails to get the message through, jumps off the train, and then is shown still standing on Johnny in the next shot, which is wide. His train is almost completely destroyed, but Casey arrives at his destination, with the remains of Johnny, just to arrive at the station, "almost on time."

• The Brave Engineer depicts the wreck near Vaughan, Mississippi as a head-on collision with Casey's train steaming one way and another train steaming the other way, in an Ozark-like mountain range. In the real accident, Casey's engine had struck the rear end of a train, which was stopped on the tracks, due to a broken air line, and didn't occur in a mountain area.
• The accident takes place in broad daylight and clear conditions in the cartoon. The real-life wreck occurred at night during a rain storm.
• The Brave Engineer ends with Casey only mildly injured after the wreck on the remains of his damaged engine, Johnny. In real life, he was critically injured, and did not survive the accident.
• Casey operates Johnny single handed in the cartoon. Sim Webb was with Casey before the crash in real life.
• Johnny is an American Standard 4-4-0 engine in the cartoon. Casey's real engine was an American 4-6-0 engine No. 382 in real life on his fateful since No. 99 is doiled up as a replica of that engine at the Casey Jones US History Museum in Jackson, Tennessee, USA.

• Make Mine Music-the 1946 package feature that featured Casey at the Bat which similar design and madcap comedic pace
• John Luther "Casey" Jones
• Casey Jones (TV series)-also a loose adaptation of the legend with Alan Hale as Casey

• The Brave Engineer @ Big Cartoon Database
• The Brave Engineer at IMDb
• Walt Disney's Story Of The Brave Engineer (Casey Jones) RCA Victor Records (Audiobook) on Internet Archive and YouTube
• D23 entry