Friday, September 19, 2025

I got called to dog catch a Z train going to Winslow- before 5 am and before I had my morning coffee. We were supposed to share a van with another crew. The dispatcher told us to call hiim when we got to Seligman, which was half of the way to Winslow. By default I got to sit in the front seat of the van-but the sun was right on me. Oh well. We called the dispatcher at Seligman and he said to call him at Darling. We called him at Daarling and he said to ride the van the rest of the way to Winslow. So we tied up at the depot and the van took us to the hotel. We had a 30 minute wait for a room. I helped myself to some coffee and my headache went away. Since I wqasn't tired I stayed up and watched TV. The refrigerator in the hotel is still out of order. I bought a frozen dinner. I expected to fall asleep very easily.- but I didn't. Finally I fell asleep. I had a bad dream that my train broke down, and somebody gave me a ride home. I said, "I have a few things to do." Then I couldn't find my truck in the parking lot, and my cell phone wouldn't work. I said, to myself, "I'm still on duty, I have to call the trainmaster." Then I woke up. I went back to sleep and had another bad dream but I can't remember any of it. I got up for the free breakfast at 6 am. I was finally awakened by my call. I was called for the Q ATGLAC, on duty time was 12:45 pm Mountain Time. Our train came in a few minutes before we were on duty. The inbound was okay with waiting for us. It was a small, light train with lots of power. There was a grain train in front of us, but there were no trains in fornt of it and no trains behind us. They ranus good. As we got closer to go to Needles we were going into an electric storm. There was a traffic jam in Needles and it took us a while to get in once we went over the Topock bridge. I stayed around to roll my train by, but they were frogged in by another train that had work to do so I tied up and left. I am not projected to go out in the next 24 hours but that can change any time. I have attached a picture of our leader, the 6968.

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