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Most of the photographs, artworks and articles on the Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum web pages are available for use by the media. We ask that proper credit be given to the Museum and/or the person who created the work. Please contact us first for permission to use the material.
Below are clickable links to digital files which have been saved as good quality JPEG images in sizes adequate for reproduction. Other images from these pages can be obtained by contacting Jack Gurner at jgurner@watervalley.net or by calling (662) 473-1154.
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The 382 - The engine Casey Jones wrecked at Vaughan. File size=302 KB. Photograph by J. E. France, from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
The 638 - Casey and his fireman, John Wesley McKinnie, photograph taken at the yard limit board just north of Water Valley in 1898. File size=329 KB. Photograph by J. E. France, from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
How The Accident Occured. File size=266 KB. Courtesy of the Casey Jones Museum, Jackson, Tennessee.
Railroad Historian Bruce Gurner standing next to a portrait of Casey Jones in the museum at Vaughan. File size=238 KB. Photograph by Jack Gurner, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
Bruce Gurner is holding a No. 5 Scoop
used to fuel a locomotive's fire.
Beside him is an engineer's clothes box
which belonged to his father, B. G. Gurner.
The box was made of metal so it could be thrown up on the front of the
engine - not inside - for the trip. File size=317 KB. Photograph by Jack Gurner, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
The only known authentic photograph of Casey in the cab of an engine. This is a detail from the photo of the 638. File size=287 KB. Photograph by J. E. France, from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
Portrait of Casey Jones taken from a composite of the the Water-Lily Lodge, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen membership in 1897. File size=135 KB. Photograph by J. E. France, from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
Mrs. Janie Brady Jones in 1949. File size=76 KB. Photograph from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
Casey's fireman Sim Webb in 1949. File size=84 KB. Photograph from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
Casey's fireman Sim Webb and Mrs. Janie Brady Jones were special guests of the St. Francois County Railroad Club at Bonne Terre, Missouri, on October 8, 1949. They shown with a model of the 382 which was built by Harry L. Woodson, sheet metal tinner at St. Louis, and the whistle from Casey's engine. . File size=236 KB. Photograph from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
The Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum is housed in the Illinois Central Railroad Depot building in downtown Water Valley, Mississippi. File size=279 KB. Photograph by Jack Gurner from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
The US Postal Service special cancellation (click for details). File size=133 KB.
Jack Gurner, Curator of The Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum, shows some of the rail samples from the museum collection. File size=315 KB. Photograph by Jack Gurner from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
Interior view of the Water Valley Casey Jones Museum. File size=297 KB. Photograph by Jack Gurner from the Bruce Gurner Collection, Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum.
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