When I woke up The other day we had no internt and no TV. I thougt it was just me. Then wehn I went to the bank I saw a long line. The bank had no internet either. Someone in the bnak told me they haad come all of the way from Bullhead City and ther ewas no internet or phone service there either. I also heard it had something to do with tower in Las Vegas being blown over at 4 am. Later on I went to the post office and they had a sing that said, "cash only.' Their computer were down. I heard that this was from Las Vegas to Barstow. I had thought that my phone was okay, but I got disconnected during a couple of calls, and I could not call crew call. I was projected to go to work at 3:30, and I was afraid that I would miss my call. So I got ready for work, got in my car, and started to drive to the depot. I went around the corner and I got my call. I was called for a large stack train. On the way a big buck was out in the tracks in front of us near Flagstaff. He moved at the ast minute. We got relieved at Flagstaff. When I got to the hotel I was beat. I got up a couple hours later for the free breakfast, went back to bed, and slept until about 1. I got called for the "WINKING," which goes from WInslow to Kingman. (It actually jgoes to Nelson Industries). The trainmaster told me that our train was on Track 14. All we had to do was the air test. My engineer and I took the yard van to our train and found that the 3 motors on our train were not the 3 motors that we were supposed to have. Also, the cars were not singed. The air hoses between the last motor and the first cqar had not been laced. The herede came out and said that he would help us witht the Class I. First, my engineer wanted to do a "Locomotive Air Brake Test" so we did it. I laced the hoses and cut the air in. I relased the 3 brakes and the helper did the Class I. My engineer notified the trainmaster that our leader did not have an event recorder. He said that as long as one of the other motors had an event recorder we were okay. I called the dispatcher aqnd changed the # of our lead motor on our GTBS. With all of that done, and with the rain starting to come down, I asked the trainmaster if we could leave. "Talk to the dispatcher, "he said. "We're on Track 14," I reminded him. "Oh," he said. We had to wait for one train to come in. Finally, we pulled ahead. I had to throw one switch. It was raining, and it was cold. The trip to Nelson was uneventful, except that we saw lots of deer and elk. (It was evening, and it had just rained). When we got to Nelson the van was there. I threw the switch and dropped the derail. I rolled the train by, restored the switch and derail, and had the van run me up to the first car. I tied 3 brakes. We did a release test and it held. The van took us to Needles. I tied up around midnight and took a SMART Rest (first one I've taken in a long time). I'm projected to go to work around midnight. When I was at the depot in Winslow the other day someone from corporate gave me a pin that says, "Drive Down the Summer Spike" in reference to the fact that this is the hottest time of the year. I have attached a picture of it.