getTV talks CASEY JONES and 1950s Westerns — An Interview with Toby Roan by getTV Staff April 12, 2021 If you were a kid in the 1950s, you were probably watching Westerns on television. Cowboys dominated the medium’s earliest days, with thrilling tales of handsome heroes and black-hatted bad guys captivating younger viewers. But, as the decade progressed, producers increasingly sought to appeal to viewers of all ages with recognizable characters — both historical and fictional. Casey Jones was a little of both, an actual 1890s railroader mythologized in a popular folk song. Alan Hale Jr. ( “The best engineer west of the Mississippi” — with