Thursday, March 5, 2026

I got called for the "H GALBAR." On duty time was 3 pm. It was a big train with 4 motors on the head end and 1 on the rear. They were in no hurry to get us to Barstow. We sat at the depot in Needles for a while before we departed. They put us into the siding at Goffs to let a train run around us, then put us in the sding at Ash Hill. We swapped with a Q train at Ash Hill. We only had 2 hours left to work. The other crew had much more time left than we did. We got as far as Dagget on our Q train and they sent our outbound to us. I went straight to the hotel. I slept for a couple of hours, got up for the free breakfast at 6, went back to bed, and I woke up around noon. It was a beautiful day in Barstow so I walked over to Fuzzy's and got a burrito. After I ate I could not get back to sleep. I kept looking at the lineup t see what train I was going to get but it kept changing. I finally dozed off. I got called for the "S LBEMEM." It was a nice small train with 4 motors on the head end. On duty time was 11:30 pm. I had been in the hotel over 20 hours, and I will get some "held away" for that. It took a while for our train to come in. We got on at the steps. It was a good trip. When we got to Needles the dispatcher told us that we had several open containers and that we would have to instruct our outbound to pull down to the east end so security could close them. An H train was stopped on Main 4 and we had to climb over it. I didn't sleep good today. I will probaably go out in a couple of hours. I have attached a picture of our leader, the 6866.

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