Sunday, February 22, 2026

I got calle for the S ALTSCO. On duty time was 3:30 pm. My engineer had recenlty moved here from Bakersfield. Our train came in on Yard 2, which is unusual. It was a good trip. When we got to Barstow they told us to tie it down at the Barstow signal on Main 3. There is a grade there. I had to tie 5 handbrakes, but it held. We got in around midnight. I went to bed, got up or the free breakfast at 6am, then went back to bed. Boy, did I sleep! I was at Fuzzy's getting a burrito when I got my call for the Z LACALT. On duty time was 7:10 pm. I got down to the depot early. I was going back with the same engineer. Our train came in before we were on duty. There were no vans to take us to it. The terminal manager gave us a ride. Our train was at the east end of Main 2. We had to climb over another train to get to it. Fortunately my engineer knew the engineer on the train and my engineer texted him to tell him we were on our way. It was a good trip. They only stopped us once. Our work order said that we had to set our our third motor when we got to Needles. This was unusual. We had 4 motors and usually we have to set out the last motor. My engineer had never sone this move before. The outbound came out there to help us. It went pretty smoothly. We parked our motor on Roundhouse 1 as we were told. I'm expectiong to get called any minute.

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