[Dixielandjazz] Mamie's Blues/2:19

[Dick Baker]

Exactly.  Departing trains known by their departure time, arriving 
trains by their arrival time.  Presumably, in "Mamie's Blues," that 
train arrives every day at 2:17, leaves two minutes later at 
2:19.  Thus the 2:19 train would take her away, but the 2:17 train 
(on some later day) would bring her back again.


>For what it's worth, I grew up in a small town where the passenger 
>trains were always referred to by their departure times -- you'd 
>catch the 12:15 for St. Paul, etc.  It seems certain that this was 
>common practice.
>
>Butch Thompson

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