I got called to relieve the KCKBAR on Sunday morning. There was a "maintenance window" because they were working on the tracks. Nothing was moving. The van ran us to Goffs and we relieved the crew that was on our train. It was a big train, - over 19,000 tons, with two motors on the head end, 3 in the middle, and 2 on the rear. We made pretty good time to Barstow. They told us to put it in "9 and 8." The Receiving Yard was empty. We nosed into Track 9 and I called for a van. When we got to the west end of track 9 I got off, and told my engineer to take it ahead. When the middle DPs were in front of me I told him to stop. I tied the brakes on the first three cars after the DPs and made the cut. I rode the last DP over the swtich and I yelled to the van driver "Meet me at the east end of 8" as I went by him. We had to wait for another train to go by. When it did the router threw the switch and I protected the shove into 8. We had lots o f room. The van ran me to the ehad end of our train. The router informed us that a yard job would grab our DPS so I released the van when I got to the head end. I tied 3 brakes at the head end, cut my motors away, and we took it to the roundhouse. We were done. Barstow Burger was open when I got to the hotel and I grabbed a burrito. I got called off my rest at 4:10 am. I called "Lola's " and ordered a burrito. Our train was at the steps when I got to the depot. It was a big stack train- over 14,000 feet long. It had 4 motors on the head end and 3 in the middle. It looked like it was going to be a good trip. They kept us moving. Then we sat at the signal before West Needles for over an hour. Then we sat at West Needles for while. That screwed things up for me because I wanted to run some errands when I got off work. It would be after 5 pm by the time I got home. We pulled down to East Needles because security had to close some containers on our train. We got relieved there. The hotel and Barstow Burger have put Christmas trees up. I have included a picure of our leader on the stack train- the 7234.