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"Double E" = "EE"? (Re: Subway Songs) (409589)

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Posted by Paul Matus on Thu Nov 14 21:37:30 2002, in response to Re: Subway Songs,
posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Thu Nov 14 21:02:14 2002.

There is also a reference to "Double-E" (or rather the plural "Double-Es") in Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry."

Don't the brakeman look good, mama
Flagging down the double-Es

The song appeared on the 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited, two years before the EE train.

Both the Dylan song and Poor, Poor Pitiful Me sound like they're referring to a railroad train anyway, it would seem there is some railroad meaning to "Double E."

When the Dylab song came out in '65, I thought he was referring to twin EMD "E" type passenger engines, but some think that "Double-E" referred to a class of large locomotive or even a wide gauge railroad.

I doubt it refers to the Queens-Broadway Local.


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