Tuesday, March 18, 2025

I got called for a Unit train. On duty time was 11:00 pm. It was the Geo car again. The same engine and the same two cars. It was tied down on Yard 5. This time I was taknig it to Winslow. I had to release the brake on the first car. Our trip to WInslow was about 9 hours. When we got there the train master came out to meet us and told us to take it to the "ice track." My engineer told him, "There's already a train in the ice track." Turns out the tainmaster got us confused wiht another unit train. He told us to tie it down. We did. I got to the hotel in time for the free breakfast, went to bed, and got up around 4:30 pm. I was showing out the next morning. I bought a frozen dinner from the front desk, watched some TV, and went back to bed. I slept like a log. I got called at 5:20 am. It was too early for the free breakfast, so I had the van driver run through the drive through at McDonald's. I had the Z WSPSBD, going from Willow Springs, Illinois to San Bernadino. We had to wait an hour for our train to come in. The inbound said that they had been treated pretty well by the dispatcher. We got going pretty soon. We had 5 otors on the head end and they ran us pretty good. I think we only stopped once. It was a good trip. About 8 hours. I rolled my train by. I'm going to get some "held away" for my long stay in the hotel. I'm scheduled for Rules Training on Thursday, so at 6 pm tonight I'm going to lay off for 48 hours. An aquaintence of mine from San Diego is supposed to be in Needles today. I hope to get together with them.

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