Casey Jones

We stopped at a little tourist trap, "Casey Jones Village," commemorating the famed steam locomotive engineer, "Casey" Jones. For the uninitiated, Jonathan Luther "Casey" Jones was a very talented locomotive engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad in the 1890s. He and his wife and their three children lived in a house in Jackson, TN until his death on April 30, 1900.

Photo from International Brotherhood of Teamsters website.

Photo from the Tennessee History for Kids website

The site consists of a museum dedicated to Casey Jones, the modest home his family owned and lived in, locomotive 382 and a number of stores forming three sides of a rectangular parking lot. The photos below show his home.

As I did not get any good pictures of his home, I borrowed these two. The one above is from Trip Advisor. The one below is from Atlas Obscura.

Behind the museumis locoomotive 382. Casey Jones used this locomotive to pull a high-speed passenger train, the Cannonball Express.

The photos below show the inside of the cab of the locomotive. First is the engineer's side. Second is the fireman's side.

As you can see, ther is plenty of parking. Definitely worth a stop.