I got called for the Q BARNSA. On duty time was 3:26 am. It wasn't so bad because I got up before I was called and had my morning coffee. It looked like it was going to be a good trip. They kept us going. Then they stopped us, once or twice. Then they gave us wind warnings that slowed us down t 35MPH. They told us we would be relieved at "Sunsine." We weren't sure where that was. We went by one siding that had a vehicle stopped in it, but it wasn't a Halcon van. We saw a man wearing one our vests getting out. It turned out that was Sunshine. The vehicle was a rental. We got to Winslow and tied up just before our 12 hours was up. The grill at the hotel had just opened. I had my usual. Then I went to bed. I got called for the H KCKBAR at 4:45 am. They hadn't started serving breakfast at the hotel yet, so I had the van driver run me to McDonald's. I gave the guy at the counter a coupon good for a free egg McMuffin. He didn't know what to do with it. I waited a few while another employee showed him how to ring it up. I still made it to the depot in plenty of time. Our train was a monster- over 15,000 tons. We had 3 motors on the head end, 2 in the middle, and one on the rear. We started out okay. Then we got an alarm indicating that one of our motors had stalled. We were going uphilll at about 13 MPH. I went back and found that the third motor was not loading. We called Mechanical. The had me flip some switches and cut out the traction motors, one at a time. When I cut out traction motor #2 the engine started to load and our speed increased. I had fixed the problem. Our day was just over 9 hours. I have attached a picture of the 7407, our leader on the KCKBAR. I had a long rest- longer than I wanted. By the way, some of you may have heard that I have started work on a new CD. It's true. More on that later.