Saturday, March 28, 2026

I got called for the KCKBAR again! On duty time was 7:30 am. this time it was a little smaller than the previous time. Still, it was pretty big. We had 4 motors on the head end, 2 in the middle, and one on the rear. We were making good time to Barstow. Then they stopped us at Dagget for a while. Then they moved us up to East Barstow. We sat there for a while too. (One of the problems with this train is that it's so big that it takes up two tracks and the Receiving Yard has to wait until two tracks are open before they can bring us in. We had 90 minutes left to work when I heard a rock hit my window. I looked down and I saw a van with two railroaders- we were bing relieved, but no one had told us. I went directly to the hotel. I went to Fuzzy's to get a burrito, and I went to bed. I got up for the free breakfast. They were sering it early. My phone rang at 6 am. I was called for the H BARKCK! (I came to Barstow on the KCKBAR and I was leaving on the BARKCK, the two worst trains). Today the BARKCK was smaller than usual. I finished my breakfast and got down to the depot. I was goinig back with a different engineer- and we had a student engineer. The yard crew was building our train- which was unusual because we were head end power only (when it's head end power, or "conventional" as we say, usually the road crew puts it together). When our train was ready we took the van out to Tom's Megaburgers and relieved the yard engineer on our train. They ran us pretty good-until we got to Homer. Then they stopped us for a while. We went down to West Needles and waited a while. We had been on duty for 10 and ahalf hours when they brought us in. I rolled my train by. I have attached a picture of our leader, the 7880. I'm projected to go out tomorrow late in the morning. I hope so. I need some sleep.

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