The villain turns to the camera and exclaims theatrically, 'Curses! Foiled again!' Casey is in such a hurry now, that he doesn't even stop to let her off, depositing her (rope and all) in the arms of a pleasantly surprised station master as he rushes past the next platform at full speed. Unwilling to waste any more time stopping, Casey rushes forward, stands on the engine's cowcatcher, and scoops up the terrified woman just seconds in the moment in which the train is about to run her over. A stereotypical villain with a black handlebar mustache has tied a lady to the tracks in front of Casey's train. Unfortunately, a new problem presents itself. No sooner is the train back up to full speed, though, then Casey is forced to bring it screeching to a halt: standing in the middle of the tracks grazing, is a large brown cow which finally moves aside after much shouting and whistle blowing on Casey's part. Before long, he has cleared the flood and is on his way again.

Eight hours late, but nonetheless undaunted, Casey climbs up on the cab roof and uses his coal shovel as a paddle. Further on, however, the weather turns nasty, flooding the tracks like 'the bed of a creek' and all but swamping the train. Mail is loaded aboard the train and with a toot on the whistle, Casey sets off at a dangerously 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 (much to the switchman's relief).Īt first, the trip is uneventful and we see Casey relaxing in a rocking chair in front of the open firedoor, casually stoking it one piece of coal at a time as if it were a parlour stove. 2, an American 4-4-0, which is Casey's, which is 'slow asleep', and eventually cuts to a closeup of the cab window, where Casey is revealed to be sleeping in his engine cab.ĭoffing his bedclothes (he is fully dressed in blue overalls and a stereotypical engineer's cap underneath), he checks his watch and realizing that he is behind schedule, hurriedly readies the engine to depart. The shot begins to focus on a single train 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.

The brave engineer