I got called for a Z train to San Bernadino bright and early on Saturday morning. I gulped down two cups of coffee and went through Jack in the Box on the way to work. We had a good train and a good trip.. After we went through Barstow security told us that we had two riders on our train. We stopped at Oro Grande and security removed them. I couldn't see anything from up in the cab where I was. It was raining in San Bermadino when we got there. I told my engineer that I had never yarded a train in San Bernadino before. On top of that, the yard made it more complicated because they wanted us to pull our train through the A Yard and then shove into the first track. We asked for the herder to come up to the cab and brief with us. The herder came up to the head end in his van, and another van came to pick me up. We went over what I had to do. The yard told us to shove into track 15/25 first, and then shove into track 16/26. (The tracks in the A Yard have two numbers. For example, on the east end track 15 is track 15, on the east end it is track 25, which only makes things more confusing). I got in my van and went to the first crossing on track 15. I"lit the crossing up" as we say. I threw two "fusees" (flairs) on each side of the crossing and then the herder passed the shove onto me. (The reason we throw fusees onto the crossing is to keep trucks from going through the crossing when we are about to shove through it. I was told that sometimes the trucks drive over the fusees anyway, but that didn't happen today). I shoved my train through the crossing. In the meantime the herder "leapfrogged me" in his van and picked up the shove. He spotted the rear of the train. He got an "in between" and started to tie handbrakes. He told me to make my cut. I got an in between, closed the angle cock, pulled the pin, and told my engineer to take it ahead one car to make the separation. He did. Then I spotted the last car on the west side of the crossing so the rear coupler on the car was inside the hash marks. This is done so the last car is close enough to an air hose so the train can be filled with air again. I got an in between and tied 4 handbrakes on my cut. Once this was done, I rode up in the van and made the cut at the next crossing. We repeated the procdure and shoved our train into track 16/26. Again I had to light up the crossing, shoved my train through the crossing, and then made the cut, spotted the west end of the train, and tied 4 handbrakes. I moved up and did it at the next cut. While I was doing that the herder cut our power away and took it to Diesel Service. We were done. The van took me to diesel service and I got my gear off the motor. We went to the depot and tied up. I was lucky that I had an engineer, a router, and a van driver who were helpful and knew what they were doing. If I have to yard a train in San Bernadino again I will ber more confident. We checked into the Best Western In Rancho Cucamonga. I went across the street and grabbed something to eat. I went to bed around 4 pm. I slept for the rest of the day and all night! (Boy, did I sleep). I got up for the free breakfast at 7 am, then went back to bed. The hotel called me around noon and asked me when I was checking out. I told them that I was projected to go to work a 5:30 pm. They said they would extend my stay. (This hotel is the ony one that wants to know how long I'm going to stay. I work for the railroad. I never know how long I'm going to stay!). Instead I got called for a deadhead at 1:04 pm. I went back to Needles in a van with the same engineer I came with. I tied up and went home. I wasn't sure if I would be able to sleep, since I slep so much in San Bernadino, but last night I slept like a log!