I got called for a stack train, but my engineer and I got swapped to a vehicle train, the "V BIRSBD," which goes from Birmingham, Alabama to San Bernadino. It was a good train. We had 2 motors on the head end and one on the rear. Our actual HPT was 3.3. We had 53 cars, weighed 3,932 tons, and we were 5,191 feet long. We were on duty at 9 pm and we departed at 9:39 pm. We got off to a good start. They ran us pretty good. This particular engineer became a trainmaster for a while but now he is "back in the seat" as we say. When an engineer or a conductor becomes a trainmaster we say that they have "gone over to the dark side." But in this case he and another engineer that became a trainmaster the same time that he did are both going back to the seat. They stopped us a couple of times. We passed the Barstow signal at 2:16 am. They told us to tie it down on the Rio Seco siding. I only had to tie one handbrake. I checked into the hotel, slept a couple of hours, got up for the free breakfast at 7 am, went back to bed, got up and grabbed a burrito in the afternoon, and went back to bed again. I woke up around 9:15 pm, just before I got my call to be on duty at 11 am. It was for a stack train with the same engineer. It was the "S LHGMEM," which goes from Los Angeles Harbor to Memphis. We had 71 cars, weighed 6,338 tons, and we were 6,780 feet long. We had 4 motors on the head end. We got on at the steps, and departed at 11:37 pm. Our HPT was 2.9, but they let an X train out in front of us and it was going very slow. They also stopped us several times. We were stopped at Ibis and my engineer tried to call the disptacher on his cell phone because they still hadn't called an outbound for us. As we pulled into Needles on Main 4, he asked her over the radio if she wanted us to tie it down. She said, "Standby." then a few minutes later she said that our outbound would be out. I volunteered to "babysit" the train, since my engineer had to take his son for a wrestling lesson. I figued that the outbound wouldn't be there for an hour but they showed up in 15 minutes or so. Maybe the dispatcher swapped them from another train? I briefed them an rolled them by, and when I tied p I requested a "SMART Rest." I went home, change, and went to church for the first itme in a long time. They had an altar call and several people came forward, crying. Our pastor was crying too. The first woman to come forward had a bunch of tattoos, and quite frankly she wasn't dressed very well, but that's okay. God sees our hearts and today she has a beautiful heart. I could not attache a picture of our leader, the 7437, because they left before I could do so, but I have attached a picture of the 6040 with an open door. Remember, only you can open the door to your heart. Hoping that you had a Happy Easter. Tony