Casey Jones’ Whip-or-Whill Call

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Creator

Unknown

Title

Casey Jones’ Whip-or-Whill Call

Coverage

Unknown manufacturing location

Date

ca 1895

Description

This whistle is from the locomotive assigned to Illinois Central engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones. Jones had this whistle built from boiler tubing to give his engine a distinctive call. He died April 30, 1900, near Vaughn, MS, while running another engineer’s locomotive. Jones’ co-workers removed this whistle from his normally assigned locomotive and presented it to his widow.