Re: Casey Jones Railbus

The building shown is presently sitting by the Silverton depot, but was originally built for the winter storage of Casey adjacent to the Jail museum next to the courthouse. When the D&S picked up the Casey, the building was also moved by the railroad as that location is now our mining heritage building. The D&S moved the structure down by the depot and it has been there ever since. It is not historic.

The Casey itself has been intact since it was built in the Sunnyside Mine's carpentry shop at Eureka. I have no idea what vehicle body was near the gazebo in the 1980s, but it had nothing to do with the Casey. With the addition of a battery, oil, water, and gasolene, the Casey has always been operational. When it was in Duango, stored on the fenced in private car track in the 1960s, the Turners took it out for a ride, and as I understand it, went up to about the current North City Market. For years it was a display outside Henry Gray's motel in Silverton, the surviving building that is now ZE Supply and when Henry ran it, was the Mobile gas station. That's where the Turners acquired the Casey. Prior to that, it sat in Eureka, and Jackson Thode had a great picture of it sitting rather forlorn in an abandoned town, with little paint, and a dubious future. When the SN was torn up in 1942, Henry either appropriated the vehicle or made some arrangement to move it to his business in Silverton.