SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:01:48 Discussion about wages on the railway and how it grew after a year working at the Borden yards; wages, railway. | SIDE A 00:01:48 -- 00:02:00 Discussion about Cerretti's Hotel in Borden; Cerretti's Hotel, Borden. | SIDE A 00:02:00 -- 00:02:57 Discussion about the Mount Albion Station and Lawton's potato warehouse in Hazelbrook; Hazelbrook, Lawton, potato warehouses, Mt. Albion Station, train stations. | SIDE A 00:02:57 -- 00:07:10 Discussion about being a railway driver, his test to become one on a steam engine,and how jobs were "advertised" on the railway and how seniority effected them; railway drivers, drivers, steam engines, railway jobs, railway. | SIDE A 00:07:10 -- 00:08:22 Discussion about steam engines; steam engines, trains. | SIDE A 00:08:22 -- 00:09:59 Discussion about Charlie Deighan, Charlie's father Ernie, and his big family; big families, Charlie Deighan, Ernie Deighan. | SIDE A 00:09:59 -- 00:15:35 Discussion about the big snow of 1923 and shoveling out a train stuck in Souris for a week; storms, snow storms, 1923, deep snow, stuck trains, shoveling. | SIDE A 00:15:35 -- 00:18:10 Discussion about an accident just outside of Elmira in East Baltic; train wrecks, trains, accidents, Elmira, East Baltic. | SIDE A 00:18:10 -- 00:23:25 Discussion about switching from steam to diesel and heavier tracks; train tracks, diesel engines, steam engines, trains. | SIDE A 00:23:25 -- 00:24:50 Discussion about cutbacks to section crews and the switch from narrow to wide gauge; wide gauge, rail gauges, narrow gauge, section crews, railway. | SIDE A 00:24:50 -- 00:25:55 Discussion about learning how to drive diesel engines; trains, diesel engines, steam engines. | SIDE A 00:25:55 -- 00:26:43 Discussion about Pig Day and traveling from Tignish to Souris; Pig Day, pig trains. | SIDE A 00:26:43 -- 00:28:13 Discussion about retiring from the railway after 38 years on the rails; railway, retirement. | SIDE A 00:28:13 -- 00:29:20 Discussion about the end of the railway; railway, trains. | SIDE A 00:29:20 -- 00:31:27 Discussion about railway travel, how passengers weren't treated well, and how the trains were always late; trains, passengers, traveling, railway. | SIDE A ends at 00:31:27. SIDE B 00:31:50 -- 00:32:50 Discussion about the jitney that traveled from Charlottetown to Summerside; jitneys, trains. | SIDE B 00:32:50 -- 00:34:48 Discussion about The Pig's Eye and mainlanders trying bump Islanders out of jobs; jobs, The Pig's Eye, trains. | SIDE B 00:34:48 -- 00:36:40 Discussion about his best memory of working on the railway and a story about making tea and coffee; tea, railway, trains. | SIDE B 00:36:40 -- 00:38:35 Discussion about firing for steam engines, how much coal they kept in the cab, and staying warm in the winter; steam engines, coal, trains. | SIDE B 00:38:35 -- 00:45:07 Discussion about things they hit with the train and his car insurance; insurance, cars, trains, accidents. | SIDE B 00:45:07 -- 00:46:56 Discussion about Ralph Sheidow of Millview; Ralph Sheidow, Millview. | SIDE B 00:46:56 -- 00:47:20 Discussion about his grandfather's farm and his favorite horse; horses, farms. | SIDE B 00:47:20 -- 00:48:13 Discussion about first car; Nash, cars. | SIDE B 00:48:13 -- 00:50:02 Discussion about his first radio and ear phones; radio programs, Charlottetown Abbies, hockey games, | SIDE B 00:50:02 -- 00:53:06 Discussion about the biggest changes since he was a child, the first airplane he saw, Italians in Victoria, the Hindenburg flying over Georgetown, and putting a man on the moon; Italians, Victoria, Hindenburg, airplanes, Georgetown. | Tape ends at 00:53:06.
