five p.m.
`` What is that ? '' Shirley queried . `` The mad-train runs over your uncle 's logging railroad up into Township Nine , where his timber and ours is located . It is the only train operated on Sunday , and it leaves Sequoia at five p.m. to carry the Pennington and Cardigan crews back to the woods after their Saturday-night celebration in town . As a usual thing , all hands , with the exception of the brakeman , engineers , and fireman , are singing , weeping or fighting drunk . '' `` But why do you provide transportation for them to come to town Saturday nights ? '' Shirley protested .