Thursday, June 26, 2025

I won a bid to get back on Board 36 (which means I will be going to Winslow from now on). I got called for the "Northbay," the hottest train I could be called for. On duty time was 8:45 pm. It was a good trip. On the way we saw a porcupine near the tracks just outside of Flagstaff. I checked into the hotel in Winslow around 2:45 am. I had a long layover in the hotel. After a couple of hours of sleep I went down for the free breakfast, went back to sleep for a while, went down to the grill in the evening to have something to eat, and went back to bed. I slept like a log and woke up just before I got my call. I was called for the H AMSBAR at 3:50 am Mountain Time. It was a Key Train so we would be limited to 50 MPH. Our train had 7 motors on the head end and one on the rear! We could not run all of those motors on the head end. My engineer called the "Road Foreman of Engines" and they discussed which engines he could run. (Our paperwork was all fouled up). We took the van out to East Winslow and relieved the crew there. After briefing with the inbound engineer my engineer had to come up with another game plan about which engines to run. (A couple of them had defects). He put engines 1-3 online, and the DP was online. Our HPT was just under 1.9, and our tons per dynamic brake was just under 300. That would do. We had no setouts or pickups). They ran us pretty good considering we were an H train. Our trip was about 8 hours. I rolled my train by and tied up. I'm projected to go out again tomorrow around noon. I'm tired. I have attached pictures of our leaders, the 7753 in Winslow and the and the 7862 in Needles.

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