For what it's worth... You are perfectly correct in stating that it would be called the "Double EE". There is also an "RR" line and that too is called the "double R".
I have been travelling NYC Subways for over 50 years and have seen and heard it
all (that is until next week when I'll see/hear something that will blow me away once again!
I once wrote a humerous essay that spoke of a newtype ride that would be guaranteed to alarm you, shake you, blow cold/hot air on you, threaten you, etc., etc. and when the reader got to the end, only THEN did I mention that I was writing about a ride on the NYC Subway system.
Dave
Zevon lyric (full lyrics at
http://www.lyrics.jp/lyrics/W000600010011.asp):
"Laid my head on the railroad track, waitin' for the Double E.
But the railroad don't run no more. Poor, poor pitiful me."
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 6:59:41 PM UTC-6, bardo wrote:
Zevon lyric (full lyrics at
http://www.lyrics.jp/lyrics/W000600010011.asp):
"Laid my head on the railroad track, waitin' for the Double E.
But the railroad don't run no more. Poor, poor pitiful me."
Since Zevon was based in _Chicago_, I would think that the EE train in New York
isn't likely. Plus, of course, the New York Subway hasn't ceased operations.
And the term meaning a train pulled by two E-units; no way. Doesn't fit the context.
But what does fit perfectly is if it's a reference to the Lake Erie & Eastern railroad.
With the other songs, it isn't quite as clear or unambiguous, but this one, I think, only leaves that as a possibility.
On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at 9:49:00 PM UTC-7, jsa...@ecn.ab.ca wrote:
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 6:59:41 PM UTC-6, bardo wrote:
Zevon lyric (full lyrics at http://www.lyrics.jp/lyrics/W000600010011.asp):
"Laid my head on the railroad track, waitin' for the Double E.
But the railroad don't run no more. Poor, poor pitiful me."
Since Zevon was based in _Chicago_, I would think that the EE train in New York
isn't likely. Plus, of course, the New York Subway hasn't ceased operations.
And the term meaning a train pulled by two E-units; no way. Doesn't fit the context.
But what does fit perfectly is if it's a reference to the Lake Erie & Eastern
railroad.
With the other songs, it isn't quite as clear or unambiguous, but this one, IIn the case of the Bob Dylan lyric, since brakemen flag down real trains much more often than subway trains, I think that the Lake Erie & Eastern is also the
think, only leaves that as a possibility.
more likely explanation.
In the case of the Grateful Dead lyric, on the other hand, I think it's fairly
obviously the musical note E that is referred to... _if_ it had anything to do
with trains, the "double-E gauge theory" would be the only possibility.
John Savard
On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 at 9:49:00 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 6:59:41 PM UTC-6, bardo wrote:
Zevon lyric (full lyrics at http://www.lyrics.jp/lyrics/W000600010011.asp):
"Laid my head on the railroad track, waitin' for the Double E.
But the railroad don't run no more. Poor, poor pitiful me."
Since Zevon was based in _Chicago_, I would think that the EE train in New York
isn't likely. Plus, of course, the New York Subway hasn't ceased operations.
And the term meaning a train pulled by two E-units; no way. Doesn't fit the
context.
But what does fit perfectly is if it's a reference to the Lake Erie & Eastern
railroad.
With the other songs, it isn't quite as clear or unambiguous, but this one, IIn the case of the Bob Dylan lyric, since brakemen flag down real trains much
think, only leaves that as a possibility.
more often than subway trains, I think that the Lake Erie & Eastern is also the
more likely explanation.
In the case of the Grateful Dead lyric, on the other hand, I think it's fairly
obviously the musical note E that is referred to... _if_ it had anything to do
with trains, the "double-E gauge theory" would be the only possibility.
John Savard
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