Sunday, August 31, 2025
got called much quicker than I expected to on Friday evening. On duty time was 7:55 pm Mountain Time for the Z LACNYC, which jgoes from Los Angeles to New York City. It was a small, light train. It was a good trip, About 8 hurs. I got to the hotel too early for breakfast. So I slept an hour or two then went down to eat. I slept for severl hous, and at 4:30 pm I went down to the grill to get something to eat. The refrigerator in the hotel is still out of order, so they have a limited menu. I could have the "bandit burge," my favorite. Because they took the meat out of the freezer and microwaved it. It tasted like a brick, and I said so. Still it filled me uip.
I got calledat 11:20 pm for a big stack train. It was over 14,000 tons and over 15,000 feet long.It had 4 engines on the head end and 2 in the middle. I went down to the depot and noticed right away that there were a lot of guys there. I had heard earlier in the day that there had been a derailment at Winslow. I found out eventually that 3 things had happend- a train had rear ended another train at East Winslow, someone had stolen a skidsteer, parked it on the tracks, and a train had hit it, and shortly after an axle had locked up on another train. No one had been killed or injured in any of these incidents, but it had slowed traffic down and a lot of guys were hanging around the depot waiting for their trains. My engineer and I were on duty for nearly two hours before we got on our train and departed. The trip was just over 8 hours, and our day was about 10 hours long. We saw some deer and a small herd of elk near Flagstaff.
I have attached a picture of our leader on the stack train, the 6058. I'm projected to go out tomorrow afternoon. Labor Day is going to be just another day for me.
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