No sooner has the train been back up to full speed than Casey is forced to bring it screeching to a halt: a large brown cow is standing in the middle of the tracks grazing. Before long, when the flood has cleared, Casey is on his way again after his engine sneezes and shakes itself and the rest of the train like a wet dog. Eight hours late, but nonetheless undaunted, Casey climbs up onto the cab roof and uses his coal shovel as a paddle. Further on, however, the weather becomes nasty, flooding the tracks and all but swamping the entire train. Mail is loaded aboard the mail car on the train and with a toot on the whistle, Casey sets off at a high speed through the maze of switches and sidings, nearly T-boning two other trains in the process before making it safely out of the yard, giving the switchman quite the panic attack.Īt first the trip is uneventful. He quickly awakens and realizes that he is fully behind schedule and ends up hurriedly readying the engine to depart.
2, an Eight Wheeler 4-4-0, where Casey, the cartoon's protagonist, is revealed to be "slow asleep" in his engine's cab. The shot begins to focus on a single train, pulled by No. The film opens with an overhead shot of a sprawling railroad yard in the morning, where all the trains are "fast asleep".
3 Differences between the cartoon and real life.
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