Friday, January 9, 2026

I haven't written in the last few days because I have been getting called off my rest. I have worked 5 days in a row. This morning I got called for a stack train. On duty time was 2:25 am Pacific Time. We had to wait a while for our train to come in and we departed at 4 am. We were moving along pretty good. It wasa light stack train with 3 motors on the head end. Then they put us in the siding at Amboy. They told us we were going to swap with the H AMSBAR because Barstow didn't want our train. So the AMSBAR pulled up next to us and we swapped. Then after they left they pulled out behind us. It made no sense. We found out later that they had to double up with another train at Dagget. So they had some work to do. We had a good trip to Barstow and they took us into Receiver 6. They told us that we we would be "flipped" back to Barstow. Our train had 3 motors on the head end and 1 on the rear. I cut the lead 3 motors away. Another train was putting 7 motors away in Diesel Service and we had to wait for them to get out of the way. We put our motors in Track 13. I had to line 2 switches. We took a van to our DP. I cut it away. It was facing east. We went over the switch and then shoved toward Diesel Service. Then they threw us a curve ball. They told us to go around the balloon and put our motor in the "balloon pocket." So we did that. There was some equpment in the pocket but our one motor fit. We deadheaded back to Barstow in van with the crew that we swapped trains with. This was start 5 for me. I will get start 6 tomorrow and start 7 on Sunday. Then I will have 3 days off due to RISA. I'm looking forward to it. No pictures.

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