Jimmy, a young boy, idolizes famed train engineer Casey Jones and is devastated when his hero is killed in a train wreck. The boy grows up to be a railroad engineer, too, but one day the train he is piloting loses its brakes and wrecks. Jimmy tries to fix it but has to jump off at the last minute. Unfortunately, stories begin to circulate that he turned coward and jumped off the train first, letting it be destroyed rather than try to save it. He sets out to clear his name.
Charles Starrett
as Jim Martin
Ruth Hall
as Nona Winters
George 'Gabby' Hayes
as Timothy Shine
Robert Elliott
as Casey Jones
Margaret Seddon
as Mrs. Mary Martin
Jackie Searl
as Jimmy Martin as a Boy
George Walsh
as Wild Bill Bronson
Gordon De Main
as Ike MacFarland (as G. D. Wood)
George Nash
as Fireman
Anne Howard
as Mrs Curtis
