I got called for a stadk train goinig to Barstow. On duty time was 6:45 am. Evereyting was going good. Then when our train came in the inbound told us that our horspower per ton was 1.4. Our train was a 14,000 ton train, with 3 motors on the head end and 3 in the middle. One of the motors on the head end was dead. We would not make it up the hill. We talked to the dispatcher and she told us to take a motor out of the roundhouse. I tied 7 handbrakes and we cut our lead motor away. I only had to throw one handswitch. We shoved back and made the hook, then went back and made the hook wiith our train. We had to do a locomotive air brake test, then I went back and released the 7 handbrakes. By the time we were ready to go we had been on duty for 4 hours. After we departed a passing train told us they could smell something burning near the head end of our train. Possibly we had a brake that didn't release. We stopped and I started to walk back. The brake chain on our dead motor had not fully released. Perhaps that was the problem. We started out again. As we got closer to Barstow Iooked in my IPAD and it said that we would have to set that dead motor out at Barstow. We stopped at Dagget with 10 hours on duty. They forgot about us. They ran at least two train around us. There was a lot of activity in the yard. We had about a half hour left to work when a van pulled up with our outbound. No one had bothered to tell us tht we were being relieved there. We went straight to the hotel. I got something to eat from across the street and slept like a log. I woke up in time for the free breakfast at the hotel and got my call right after- perfect timing. I had been called for a stack train. Then we got swapped to a Q train. Then we got swapped to the H BARGAL. I told my engineer, "It's musical trains today." Actually, it wasn't so bad. The yard crew put it together for us. The trainmaster took us out to the head end of our train when it was ready. It was in front of the Harvey House. By this time we had been on duty for two hours. It was a 6 hour trip to Needles. An 8 hour trip is not bad these days. I rolled my train by and tied up. I'm projected to gotowork around 9 am my time this morning. I have attached a picture of our leader on the BARGAL, the 6814.