got called for an unsual job # the other night. It was the D KGMATH3. Since it began with a D I knew that it involved moving an engine or engines, but since I was going to wind up in Needles I knew it was a dog catch of some kind. When I got to the depot the dispatcher told me that we were to go to Walapai by van, take some motorsout of the siding there, then go to Athos and take a train out of the siding. The dispatcher said that the train already had a DP on it so if they wre running we wouldn't have to do a Class I Air Brake test. We knew it was a U train, but we did't know how many cars we had or how much it weighed. It was a cold windy night and it started to rain. When we got to the sidng at Walapai my engineer walked through the motors and he said they had "tacked on" one of the motors. The air hoses and the electrical cable were not connected so hwe connected them. It meant that we would have to do a Locomotive Air Brake test. I went out into the cold and the wind and did the locomotive air brake test When we got permisisino from the disptacher I droped the derail and and thew the swtich. I roled the three motors by. I restored the derai and the switch. On the trip to Athos it started to rain. Not only was it cold and windy but it was raining. We got to Athos and stopped by the DPs. My engineer got on them. He said they were running, but the handbrakes on them were set. That was unusual. As we went to the head end of our train we noticed it was mostly tanker cars. Loaded tanker card are heavy.. My engneer stopped by the derail. I got down to drop the derail. It was an unusual derail with a round wheel. I unlocked the padlco, but I couldn't get it out of the wheel. I went up to the locomotive, grabbed a hammer, and pounded the padlock out. I turned the wheel and dropped the derail. I left the hammer there inthe rain because I knew that I woudl need it again. My engineer ran me up to the switch and then went over the switch. I threw the swich and guided my engineer back to a hook. I laced the hoses. The "rapid responder " raidioed us and said he was almost there. We had been told that he would be there to help us. I relased the brakes. Since it was a heavy train there were a lot of brakes. How many? I lost count. I think there were about 25. Let me tell you, it's hard enough to climb up tose cars when wehn they are wet it's even harder. I had to really grab on to make sure I didn't slip. When all of the brakes were released the rapid respnder ran me back to the DPs. I released the brakes on the 2 DPs. I walked up 3 cars to make sure there were no handbrakes set on them. There weren't. The rapid responder ran me to the head end of the train. When the disptcher gave us authority to come out on the main I gotdown and rolled my train by. I locked and lined the swtich back to the main track and restored the derail. (I had to use the hammer again). I got in the rapid responder's truck and he ran me up to the head end of my train. All we had to do was take the train to Needles and hand it off to another crew. Our train was a Key Train and we were limited to 50 MPH. My hard work for the night was over, so I thought. We got to within one signal of East Needles and PTC did not read the signal ahead of us, which was green. It thought the signal was red and put us into Emergency. Since we were a Key Train I would have to walk the whole train to make sure that we were on the track.I got my flashlight, my radio and started walking. At least it had stopped raining. I was already tired and wet. I was almost to the end of the train when the rapid responder sowed uo. "Why didn't you wait for me?" He asked. "We've been told not to wait for the responder." He checked the last few cars for me and then ran me to the head of the train. We went the rest of the way to Needles and handed our train off. When I got home I was exhausted. I went to bed and slept for 12 hours! I was sore when I got ups and I wasn't sure If I could make it through another shift. I got up and was heating my supper when I got called for another dog catch. I groaned. I ate and went to work. We were supposed to dog catch a U train at Bagdad, but the dispatcher told us to dog catch a Z train at Fenner, so we did. After that we were told to dog catch another Z train at Ludlow. The van ran us there, and we waited for our train to come to the signal. We relieved the inbound and took the train to Needles. By now we had less than 3 hours to work and I thought we were going to go home. But the dispatcher told us to dog catch some helpers at Goffs. We went there and we releived them between switches at Goffs. We took them to Needles. It took us about a half hour to get down the hill to Needles. I had to throw the swtich to the roundhouse and then throw it back. That was the most work I had to do during the whole shift. I claimed 390 miles for the night. We tied up after 11 and a half hours. I am now on my rest cycle.