Casey Jones' by the Grateful Dead might be a “pretty good musical picture of what cocaine is like” but this is the fascinating tale of the man in the song.

The legendary John Luther "Casey" Jones forever linked the heroic railroad engineer with speed. He was the lone casualty when his train crashed in an attempt to get his "Cannonball" back on schedule.

in 1804 -- Thomas Marshall, U.S. vice president under Woodrow Wilson, in 1854 -- Jonathan Luther Jones, railroad engineer who was the hero of the ballad "Casey Jones," in 1863 -- Physicist Albert ...