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In Retrospect With Brotherhood Representa- tive Roussel we chatted for hours with Brother Taylor. He told of the times when the Port Stanley park was a mecca for thousands and thousands of visitors on sum- mer week-ends. Even the old station had its mementos of a golden yesterday â€"â€" the tile floor- ing. hand carved wood trimmings, the wellâ€"worn ticket wicket, formi- dable looking safe, the typical clock with its swinging pendulum, the bay window, which seems to peer in both directions along the line. Anchored within sight on Lake Erie were ocean going freightch and on the placid Kettle Creek flowing past the station there were pleasure yachtsâ€" small craft and cruisers of the million-dollar classification Brother Taylor told of the days when the L and PS was about the busiest short rail- way line on the continent with its main revenue from passengers, who crowded the trains when it 0}} erated on electri- city. The passenger husiness came to an unsuccessful .end in 1957. Sailors’ Reunion Except for a hitch in the Can- adian Navy during the last war, Brother Taylor has lived all his life in the charming Lake Erie community of about 1,500 resi- dents. His dad was a skipper of one of the many. fishing boats that made Port Stanley home. It was natural that Brother Bernie selected the sea service and it was like a re-union of old salts when the talk turned from trains to ships with ,. r) tiff/i? his experiences in the navy. I took. some time to get the two tars back .to earth. Brother Alvin Mills dropped in for ' a visit, travelling by'â€"â€"- of all things for a railroader â€" a ebus. He hopes to finish his working life as a railroader before retirement; be- ing second high on the seniority list. He is only behind Brother J. E. Boyce for long service. Brother Mills started shortly before Brother ‘ Boyce. From ’ P o r t (Stanley we travel; led to the bustling iv (municipality of St. Thomas where the once busy station is . now used as a coach terminal and Traffic Manager L T. R. {Robertson has his: office space reduced to a .tiny t’ahle' 3“F ,» tucked “into a ' corner. With the general , m‘" ager of the line Rob- ,7 ertson isxthd only other" employee was one of the first to join the ; Brotherhoodn He recalled the visits of the late A. R. Masher when; employees organized Local 262 1935 and named thevlocal “ Taylor" after a popular'l who was a leader in the format of the union. ' -