“Casey Jones”

Cultural  

1. A popular American song from the early twentieth century, about an actual American railway engineer, John Luther (“Casey”) Jones. When his train was about to crash, Casey told his assistant to jump but stayed at the controls himself and applied the brakes. Although his train crashed and Casey was killed, the passengers survived.

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Example Sentences

During all this, the band was able to record two pivotal studio albums: “Workingman’s Dead” and “American Beauty,” lively, folk-inflected rock ’n’ roll records that contained many of the band’s enduring songs, including “Uncle John’s Band,” “Casey Jones,” “Friend of the Devil,” “Sugar Magnolia” and Lesh and Hunter’s “Box of Rain.”

From Los Angeles Times

Riley and the Cougs also have offers out to two former EWU Eagles, guard Cedric Coward and wing Casey Jones, both of whom are in the transfer portal.

From Seattle Times

Riley has offers out to two more of his former Eagles players, wing Casey Jones and guard Cedric Coward.

From Seattle Times

Junior wing Casey Jones, a second-team all-conference pick who averaged 13 points and ranked first nationwide in free-throw rate last season, entered the transfer portal on Thursday.

From Seattle Times

Junior forward Ethan Price and junior wing Casey Jones earned second-team honors, and Jones also landed on the all-defensive team.

From Seattle Times