Saturday morning I woke up an couldn't get back to sleep. So I got up and started drinking coffee. At 4 am I got a call from the BNSF, but it wasn't an automated call. It was a live person. They told me I was called for the "Kingman Switcher" and asked me if I wanted to be the brakeman or the conductor. "Brakeman," I said. I don't like that job, and I don't like to be the conductor because I don't know the job very well. If I work as the brakeman I make less money, but I'm not in charge of the job. I just do what the conductor tells me to do. The Kingman Switcher has a regular crew on Monday through Friday, but on Saturday they call people off the extra board. I was a llittle confused because I had heard that lately they haven't been calling a brakeman for the job on weekends. When I got to the depot I found out that the trainmaster had requested a brakeman. The conductor, the engineer and I were all off of the extra board, and none of us knew the job very well. We showed up at the depot in Needles, called the trainmaster, and he said he would meet us at the depot in Kingman. The van showed up and took us there. The trainmaster gave us our switch lists and told us what to do. He said if it looked like we couldn't get it done in 12 hours to call him about 90 minutes before we went DOL. The van tookd us to Berry. The van would be with us all day. We had to pull some cars out of a track and flip flop them.. The two tankers were going one place and the hoppers and gondolas were gong to another place. We had to hang an ETD and do a Class I Air Brake Test. We got on our train and went to McConico. I helped my conductor as much as possible. I did a lot of walking and threw a lot of swtiches and derails. We shoved the two tankers into one siding and left them there. We went ot Mcconnico and shoved the other cars into an empty track. There were a bunch of cars on the other two tracks and we were confused about which ones we were supposed to take. There were cars that weren't on the list. My conductor called the trainmaster and he said to take them all. It took us a while to put them together and to do the First Class Air Brake Test. Then we had to "run around our train" as we say to put the engine on the other end. We were getting close to 12 hours on duty. When we had permission from the disptacher I threw the swtich, dropped the derail, and rolled my train by. I got in the van and we met my train at Berry. I threw the swtich and rolled them by. My conductor and engineer tied the train down while the van ran me to the head of the train. We were done. We had finished t job, but it had taken almost 12 hours. Then, the van driver told us that she couldn't take us back to Needles. They can't work past 12 hours unless their dispatcher gives them permission. We called the trainmaster and our dispatcher. The dispatcher told a train to stop and pick us up. I was exhausted, We were tired and thirsty and hungry, and we had to ride a train to Needles. The ride wasn't so bad. I We got in and I tied up. My conductor and my engineer did a good job considering that the didn't know the job that well. Boy, my legs were tired! I slept like a log. I'm not projected to go out for the next 24 hours, of course that can change. I hate the Kingman Switcher.