Sunday, August 10, 2025
I got called for an "X train" (in this case it was empty hoppers). Our work order said that we had to set out a defective car at Needles, but the inbound started it, and by the time we came on duty and headed out there in the van they were done. The inbound conductor asked if we would give him a ride to the head end, and we did.
On duty time was 2:45 in the afternoon, and it was hot! Since we were an X train we were low priorty, and they didn't run us very well. We finally got dog caught at ? (I can't remember). It was about 2 am. We shared the van with another crew. The van brought us to the depot and we tied up. All of the other guys had cars. The van driver didn't know how to get to the hotel but I helped her with my GPS. (She was new). It was about 4 am when I got into bed. I slept for a couple of hours, got up for ther free breakfast, slept some more and went down to the grill. I was surprised it was open at 2 pm. They are supposed to open at 4, but sometimes they open early. I had my usual. I timed it just right. I got my call right after I finished eating. I was called to dogcatch the H BELBAR near Darling. We shared the van with another crew. They caught the train ahead of ours. We each got on our trains at "Airport Road." The train ahead of us had two motors go dead so they picked up a couple at Purina. This took time, and they blocked our train while they were doing that.
On the way to Needles they told us we had to pick up two cars out of Yard 7 and add them to our train. One was a tanker, and the other was a coil car. We would have to put them 5 back and do some switching to flip flop the cars so the tanker was behind the coil car. When we pulled into the yard the "rapid respnder" called us on the radio and said that he had to inspect two defective cars. This was new to us. Also, our outbund met us and said that we didn't have to pick up those two cars. The dispatcher had gotten us confused with another BELBAR. We could tie up and go home. So we did. I'm on my rest cyle.
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