Sunday, September 14, 2025
I had just gotten into bed on Saturday night when my phone rang. I was being called for a dog catch. We were to dog catch the H BELBAR near Darling. I printed out my paperwork and waited for our van to show up. We waited and waited. Fortunately another crew gave us their van. We wound up dog catching our train at Valentine. The Belbar was a big, heavy train with 114 cars. It was a Key train so we were limited to 50 MPH. It had 4 motors on the head end and 2 on the rear- but one of the motors on the rear of the train was dead- so one of the motors on the head end had to be isolated. It had an early version of Trip Optimizer that didn't work very well.
We brought the train into Needles. The dispatcher asked us to "shadow" another train from Berry to Needles. I claimed 328 miles when I tied up. I am now on my rest cycle. I'm going to try to stay up for the rest of the day and sleep like a log tonight.
I have attached a picture of our leader, the 9258.
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