I got up at 5 am yesterday because Iknew I was going to be called at 6 am. I was called for the "Q PHXSBD," which goes from Phoenix to San Bernadino. A van takes us to Cadiz, where we take it out of the siding. (Another railroad leaves it there). We have to ask the dispatcher's permission to come out onto the main, and take the train to Barstow. Our cargo is empty intermodal containers that are going to San Bernadino to be loaded. An engineer who was being deadheaded to Barstow hitched a ride in our van. The van driver later got permission to take him all of the way to Barstow. The other engineer helped out by getting the switch for us so I didn't have to do it. (Normally I would have had to throw the switch, roll my train by, and then throw the switch back, and the van would run me to the head end of my train. In this case we didn't to do that. Normally the PHXSBD has 2 engines at the head end. This one had 3. One of them was dead. My engineer and I guessed that we would have to set it out in Barstow. We were right. My engineer notified me that there is a new rule in the Barstow yard. If there is any work to be done the inbound has to do it. We had a good trip to Barstow. They brought us into I1. I tied 3 brakes, and cut away our first two motors.We had to shove into Diesel Service. This was tricky. I can't go "in between" in Diesel Service, so I disconnected the MU cable between the two motors before we shoved in there. I had to line the switches. They told us to bring it onto track 15 and we did. We cut the motor away, and went back to our train. I hooked up all of the hoses, the MU cable, and we did the "Locomotive Air Brake Test." We were also told that we had to test the dynamic brakes. My engineer did not know how to do it. That is something that they do on the Cajon subdivision. They told us that Diesel Service would be come out to conduct the test. Two men came out, ran my engineer through the test, and we were done. A van came to pick us up. When my engineer turned on his cell phone he found out that we were being "flipped" back to Needles. I thought we might share the van with another crew, but it was just us two. When I got back to Needles and tied up I found out that I had won a bid to get back to Board 36. I'm back on the east end.