Casey Jones (Quality Universe)

Casey Jones

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United States Railroad

Train engineer

First Appearance	Last Appearance
Hit Comics #1 (July, 1940)	Hit Comics #3 (September, 1940)

Chicago here we come!

— Casey Jones ^src

Casey Jones was a locomotive engineer who sometimes fought robbers and saboteurs.

Around 1940, Casey Jones worked on the "United States Railroad," running mail and freight trains between Los Angeles and Chicago.

Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic): Jones once won a fistfight with five train robbers, on the roof of a speeding mail train.

This character is a fictional representation of Casey Jones, a real person. More information on this person can be found at Wikipedia.org.
- In this case, the Quality Universe Casey Jones is very different than the real Casey Jones (living in a different era, for one), but there is no indication that the Quality Jones is supposed to be a descendant or successor of a 19th-century Jones, so it looks like Casey Jones was just different in the Quality Universe.
Jones pulled mail trains on USRR with a New York Central passenger train locomotive.
United States Railroad's route from Chicago to Los Angeles makes it a direct competitor for the Santa Fe Railroad, and it co-exists with several big western Real World railroads. Union Pacific, Santa Fe, and North Western railroads are all mentioned in newspaper stories about robberies.

It's normal, somehow, in the Quality Universe, for a single steam locomotive, and crew, to run from Los Angeles to Chicago with no crew changes.
Casey Jones' favorite engine, on the United States Railroad, is #94, a big, modern, fast-freight, steam engine. The art never shows this locomotive clearly enough to "count the wheels" and discern what type it is.