In early 1943,1 lived on Namahana Street in Waikiki with friend Peter. We both worked at the Pearl Harbor (Naval Shipyard Instrument Shop No. 51), on a six day-a-week schedule. We were up at 5 am., walk to the corner of Kuhio and Kalakaua avenues to a small island, where we took the HRT. (Honolulu Rapid Transit) trolley bus to downtown Iwalei to the O.R. & L. (Oahu Railway & Land Co.) railroad depot. 

We caught the train to Pearl Harbor and the fare was 10 cents. The train was normally crowded, but if we did get a seat, with the slow speed of the train and the click of the wheels, and the gentle swaying of the coach, it did not take us long to have a little snooze. 

Our arrival was at 6:45 a.m., in time to start work at 7 am., while the train, with its seven or eight coaches chugged on to Barber's Point. 

Occasionally, when there were not many ships in the yard we were on a short eight hour day, with more time off after work We waited at the Pearl Harbor station for the train to arrive, and sometimes it was especially slow coming up the grade with all the passengers from the various other stops.