Casey Junior

Casey Jones (III), Junior is a fictional anthropomorphic steam locomotive and among the more memorable characters of the 1941 Disney film, Dumbo, but has also appeared in other Walt Disney productions. His name is a reference to Casey Jones, the famous railroad engineer who died in a train collision in 1900.

A Disneyland attraction, Casey Jr. Circus Train, is based on Casey, with an updated version running at Disneyland Paris. Casey Jr. Splash & Soak Station, a water play area themed around the character, was added to the Magic Kingdom in 2012 in the Storybook Circus section of that park's new Fantasyland.

Physical appearance
Casey has a 2-4-0 wheel arrangement, a small four-wheeled tender at the back, a big tall funnel, a little lamp hat, a short stumpy boiler, a short stumpy dome with a whistle on the top and a small cowcatcher at his front.

Dumbo
Casey is the tender engine hauling the circus train, and even has his own song. He appears frequently throughout the film, and is shown to be somewhat sapient. For example, when the Ringmaster calls "All aboard! All aboard!", his whistle can be heard calling "All aboard! Let's go!"

As is the case with most Disney vehicles, Casey has the ability to move in a more fluid way than actual locomotives, and his boiler is often seen bending and twisting like rubber when in motion.

In addition, Casey can twist and flex his metal body to express motion. He uses his steam cylinders like limbs, giving him the ability to shrug, point and make other gestures.

Although a male (according to Casey's song, being referenced as he or him), Casey's whistle was originally voiced by Margaret Wright and he is currently voiced by Cathy Cavadini. While the sound of the voice resembles that of a voice processed through a vocoder, it was actually done with a more primitive device, a Sonovox, which uses one or two small loudspeakers in contact with the throat, which allowed Wright to "speak" by modulating an artificially produced sound with her mouth.

Earlier Work
In The Reluctant Dragon, According to a cartoon made before Dumbo, Casey was in fact, formerly a switch engine, then a passenger engine. He unfortunately crashed after an effort to jump the chasm left by a broken bridge in a storm. In this film, he was of different wheel arrangement, 2-4-0 with the main rod on the forward driving wheel. He also had a bell and wasn't quite as stubby. In his circus work he was a 2-4-0, but his rod arrangement changed to the back wheel, and his bell was removed, and he became more stubby. This leads one to think he was overhauled after the accident and bought by the circus, replacing its former broken-down engine.

Trivia

 * Casey makes a cameo appearance in a Donald Duck cartoon Spare the Rod as a black train.
 * Casey is the second float in the Main Street Electrical Parade and its versions. Casey, driven by Goofy, pulls a drum with the parade logo and Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
 * Casey makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He is spotted during the final scene.
 * The wagons that transport P.T. Flea's Circus in A Bug's Life are old boxes of Casey Jr. cookies.
 * In the film Kronk's New Groove, a sequel to The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk has a miniature model train set of Casey in his new home, complete with scaled-down models of the carriages featured in Dumbo.
 * Casey was named after John Luther Jones a.k.a. Casey Jones and The Brave Engineer.
 * It appears that, in the film, Casey does not have an engineer in his cab, so it's unknown of how he is able to move on his own in the first place.
 * Casey makes a cameo appearance in the Mickey Mouse episode "Tokyo Go".
 * When Casey climbs up the mountain, he chants, "I think I can," over and over again, and on the way down he chants repeatedly, "I thought I could." This is a reference to the classic children's book The Little Engine that Could.
 * Casey's train, for some reason, is constantly gaining and losing cars as he makes his journey: the only time he is ever seen with all of his cars intact is when he crosses a bridge before climbing up the mountain.
 * The train Casey pulls in the film, from front to back, is made up of an orange passenger car (carrying the clowns and other circus performers), a flatcar with a calliope organ, several flatcars (carrying various circus wagons), a red boxcar (carrying the elephants), a dark blue boxcar (carrying animals like monkeys, horses, zebras, and camels), several flatcars (carrying the tent and its supports), a light blue boxcar (carrying the giraffes (whose heads are clearly sticking through the roof)), a pink boxcar (carrying predators like hyenas, apes, bears, lions, and tigers), a yellow boxcar (carrying animals like ostriches, seals, hippos and kangaroos), a green passenger car (carrying the circus workmen), and a caboose (carrying the ringmaster). Also, at the end of the film, the caboose is replaced with a silver train car reserved for Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo.
 * Casey makes a cameo appearance in Where's My Mickey?
 * Casey bears some resemblance to various 2-4-0 steam locomotives built during the late 1800s (such as the JW Bowker locomotive, the only surviving standard gauge locomotive with this wheel arrangement in the United States, all other surviving locomotives with this wheel arrangement were for the narrow gauge).