I got called for the worst train I could be called for, the H KCKBAR. On duty time was 4:35 am. The train weighed over 18,000 tons! I swung by the Jack in the Box on the way to work and they were closed for one hour- the hour I happened to stop by there. We got on our train and departed. It looked like it was going to be a good tri then they stopped us for a while. We were second out at Dagget. I toned up the dispatcher and he said, "kick back and relax, you're behind a train with no crew." At this point we had 4 hours left to work. My engineer and I were irritated. How could they put us behind a train that was tied down and had no crew? A BARBAR eventually got on the train ahead of us and moved it. We pulled up to the East Barstow signal. Eventually we got relieved there. The van took us straight to the hotel and I tied up just before my 12 hours was up. I discovered, to my horror, that there was no hot water in the hotel! The employee at the desk said that they were "working on it." I took a cold shower, got a burrito from across the street, and went to bed Boy, did I sleep! I woke up in the middle of the night and looked in my cell phone. I was projected for the BARLUB at 4 am. I watched TV for a while and went back to sleep. I woke up at 5:30 am and looked t my cell phone again and I was projected for the Q STOCHI at 7:43 am. Rather than go back to bed I got up and started to get ready to go. I went down for breakfast and got my call at 6:13 am. I found out why I hadn't been called earlier. There were no engineers rested. We got called when my engineer was rested. I found, to my relief, that they had fixed the problem with the hot water. I got down to the depot and found out that our train was tied down on I1. It looked like it would be a routine trip. But when my engineer showed up he said that this grip had fallen out of the van on the way from the hotel. He had lost his IPAD, his reverser, his vest, and his wallet. I didn't know if we would have to call another engineer or not. He talked to the Terminal Manager and got a new reverser and vest. He reported the loss of his grip to the Barstow police, and made several other calls. I didn't envy him. There are a lot of sleazy people on the street in Barstow. I could imagine them going to town with his personal items. Fortunately he had lost no cash, and he was able to cancel his credit card. We eventually got on our train. I only had to untie one brake. Since there had been no engineers rested, we didn't have anyone ahead of us when we departed. They stopped us at Dagget to let a z train run around us. After an hour or two the dispatcher told my engineer to call the trainmaster in Barstow. When we came to a stop he callled and the Barstow police had found his grip with everything in it. That was a miracle. Our work order said that we had to set out a motor in Needles. We had 3 motors on the head end and one on the rear. We were hoping that they would highball it. The stopped us at West Needles and we sat there for over an hour and a half! We watched several trains both eastbound and westbound, pass us. First the dispatcher said that we would set out the motor in the roundhouse, then in the South house, then in the roundhouse again. They finally gave us the signal. When we came into the yard I had to line two switches to get us into Yard 2. We went to the east ed of the yard and our outbound was waiting there in the van. I have done this a few times before. Th outbound crew helped us and it went very quickly. We brought our motor into roundhouse 2. The van ran me to the depot. My engineer got on the DP of our train and signed the cards, then walked across the mains to the depot. I tied up. By this time it was almost 6 pm. I got up at 7 am today. I'm not projected to go out in the next 24 hours.