I got called for the Z ATGLAC to Barstow. On duty time as 3:55 pm, Pacific It was pouring rain. We got on our train and we had a flasher. My engineer didn't want to start pulling until we had a clear because he was afraid that if we stopped on the hill we would stall out when we started to pull again due to the wet tracks. But, we didn't get a clear signal so he started to pull. We eventually came to a red signal and we started to stop. Wouldn't you know that the signal changed to green. My engineer tried to get going again, but he had already set air and we were almost stopped. He gave it some throttle. Our wheels started to slip on the wet tracks. We went down to about 3 MPH and I thought we were going to stall. But, we started to move. We didn't stall. It was about an 8 hour trip. We pulled into Main 2 at Barstow and our outbound came out to meet us. I tied up, went to the hotel, and went to bed. I got up at what I thought was 6:20 in the morning. I went down to the kitchen and was suprised tthat breakfast wasn't ready. Then I remembered that my watch was set to Mountain Time because I live in Arizona. I was early. I sat there and drank apple juice until breakfast was ready. The nice lady there had it ready early. I slept like a log until the afternoon, got a burrito from across the street, and couldnt get back to sleep. I watched TV for a while and eventually dozed off. I eventually got called for the "BARKCK." On duty time was 11:30 pm. I was working with an engineer I didn't kknow. We had a student engineer. The two of them didn't know each other. We were glad to find out that the yard crew was building our train. It was small for a BARKCK. It only had 3 motors on the head end and one in the middle. The train master told us our train was almost ready to go and the head end was behind Megatoms. I found us a van and we went to Megatoms. But the head end of our train wasn't there. It was father east. We asked the van driver to take us to the other side of the tracks, and he complained about it possibly being too muddy. My engineer said, "It's an asphalt road." The van driver took us there. We had to cross over 3 mains to get to our train. We also had to climb up a bank with our grips and coolers. I slipped and fell twice. We got on our train. The main reservoir in our DP was low but it eventually charged up. When we were ready to go I called the router. He did not respond properly. We toned up the dispatcher and told them we were ready to go. Eventually we got the signal. It was a pretty good trip considering we were an H train and we were underpowered. They stopped us 3 times. My engineer complained about some strange things that the train was doing. We were almost to Goffs and we heard that a train was in emergency. When we went through Goffs we saw that another trian was derailed on Main two. The lead truck had run through a switch. (The conductor did not throw the movable frog properly). It's been a weird night," said my engineer. We stopped at the Needles signal because it was red. The disptacher told us that her system was down and she couldn't see where anybody was. It really was a weird night. We sat there an hour before the dispatcher sent out outbound to us. The wouldn't be going anywhere for a while, but at least we could get off the train after 10 hours on duty. I tied up and I was first out! It was probably because they "flipped" the person ahead of me from Barstow back to Needles. I will go to work around midnight. And I haven't slept good. It really was a weird night.