Sunday, July 13, 2025

I got called for the Z LACALT to Winslow. On duty time was midnight 20, Mountain time. It was probably the best trip I had going to Winslow- less than 7 hours. We saw some elk outside of Flagstaff. I rolled my train by and made it to the hotel in time for the free breakfast. I slept until 4, went down to the grill when it was open and went back to bed. Boy, did I sleep! I slept until I got called for the Bargal the next morning at 4:40. I got dressed and went down to the breakfast room. They were ready early and I had someting to eat. I went down to the depot. We had a student engineer, and a set out. It was a set out of 32 cars- but our train wasn't in yet and the outbound was going DOL. We got swapped to the Z WSPLAC. It was a 7 hour trip. I rolled my train by and tied up. I had requested Monday off as part of my rest cycle, but it looks like I might go to work around 3 am. We will see what happens. I have attached a picture of the 7954- our leader on the Z LACALT. By the way, on the trip back our engineer was telling is that he has a daughter in the Air Force Academy. As a result he was able to spend some time on an Air Force base and some air force pilots showed him some of our latest and greatest aircraft. They asked him what he did for a living and he said, "I'm a railroad engineer." All of a sudden those Air Force pilots started treating him like a hero. They asked him what it was like to be a railroad engineer, etc. It just goes to show that even an elite bunch of people like Air Force pilots can become little kids when they find out somebody is a railroad engineer.

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