Monday, February 10, 2025

My rest cycle extended into Sunday morning, and if Ihad take the whole rest cycle maybe I could have watched the Super Bowl. Instead I decided to "Take one for the team" and marked up early on Saturday. I got called for the H GALBAR. It's ben a while since I yarded an H train in Barstow. On duty time was 3 pm. We had 92 cars, weighed over 9100 tons, and we were over 6100 feet long. We had 3 motors on the head end and 1 D P on the rear. There was a lot of traffic going west. I didn't think we would make it. We departed at 3:46 pm. They stopped us a few times. They stopped us at West Pisgah for over 3 horus. I doubted that we would make it before we went DOL. Of course, they brought us into the yard with just enough time to put our train away. We went into R9. I made the cut, we took our 3 motors ahead, and I shoved us back to Diesel Service. They told us to put it on track 13. I had to wak ahead and line 2 switches. We had about a half hour left. We grabbed a van, went to our DP, and I made the cut. We brought it to Diesel Servie and put it on track 13. My engineer and I tied up right at 3 am. Exactly 12 hours on duty. I got in around 4, slept a couple of hours, went down for breafkfast, and then slept until 2 or so. I grabbed a burrito from across the street, and got called for the Q LACPEA . On duty time was 5:05 pm. Our train came in before we were on duty. I went u the steps to meet the inbound as soon as I was on duty. The inbound thanked me for coming to relieve them as they wanted to watche the second half of the Super Bowl. They informed me that it wasn't much of a game as the Eagles were ahead at the half. It was a good trip back. We got in around 1:24 am. It looks like I will go out in the wee hours of the morning .

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