Tickets from Charlottetown and intermediate stations will be issued for special, good to return by special the same evening. Tickets from Souris and Georgetown and intermediate stations will be issued by regular trains, good to return by regulars same evening.* F.H. Sanderson Sec'y Tea Com. The train of course provided many residents within the community a relatively reliable method of transportation. Hilda Lewis recalled occasionally taking the three-hour train journey to Charlottetown and back. She said, "You had to go on the 8:20 a.m. train, and you had to be at the station in Charlottetown at 3:20 p.m. if you were coming back the same day." (43) Occasionally trains were missed. Joe MacLean , who was from Cable Head East , once missed the train back to St. Peters and not wanting to wait, not able to wait, or for whatever reason, decided to walk back to St. Peters . Upon hearing of Joe's sojourn, Archie O'Hanley asked him, "Joe, did you miss the train in Charlottetown ." Joe, who was known for his wit replied, "Not half as much as I missed it in Mount Stewart ! In later years students also used the train to come from as far as Bear River to attend the high school in St. Peters in the 1940-1950s. In addition to passengers, the railway provided fishermen and farmers with a quick method of exporting their goods. Gertie Yorston of Greenwich recalled her father, Art Sanderson , packaging the smelts he caught on the Bay, and taking them up to the Station at the Bay where they were loaded on the train and shipped to Fulton's Fish Factory in New York . (44) Frank Ledwell recalled that 'The train also coal for delivery to homes and had shipping yard for cattle, hogs, and sheep. Farmers shipped potatoes by rail, and feed grains were delivered to the stations siding." (45) As mentioned in previous chapters, the railway also provided a quick method of transport for the mussel mud dug in St. Peters Bay , the starch produced at the local starch factory, and was also the main method of getting the mail delivered to the rural post offices. An important event in the St. Peters railroad history occurred in November of 1938. Maude Gillis recalled "We had a big storm and there was a washout at Pine Brook ." (46) Frank Ledwell also recalled this devastating storm: The storm washed out the breastwork of the rail line running along the south side of the bay. The retaining wall from Pine Brook to the Bay Bridge was completely washed out. A work crew required the entire winter to rebuild the roadbed and the retaining wall and it was not until the following spring that rail service to St. Peters and lickcts from Charlottetown and Georgetown to St. Peters were 85 cents. From Souris to St. Peters cost 65 ctr>tsin 1889. 219