Friday, April 17, 2026

I could have had all day Thursday off. I was still on my rest cycle. But I marked up earlly at 7am. It said I was 33rd out and not projected for the next 24 hours. What I didn't know was that I was the only conductor on my board that was rested up. I got called at 8:10 am for the "SAMASCO, a train going from Amarillo to Long Beach. On duty time was 10 am. I gulped down my coffee, and got ready to go. I grabbed a burrito from across the depot. It was a big train with 3 motors on the head end and 2 on the rear. We were limited to 55 MPH because our TOB was over 118. When I got to the depot I saw this UP model train engine on a table. (I have attached a picture).A UP engine in a BNSF depot? Nobody seemed to know how it got there. We had a pretty good trip. Our outbound came out to meet us on Main 2. I tied up around 5 pm. I grabbed a burrito from Fuzzy's, watched some TV and went to bed. I could not sleep. I kept tossing and turning. I kept getting up to watch TV and trying to sleep again. I must have dozed off around 3. I got up for the free breakfast at 6, and went back to bed. I got called for the "SLHGALT." On duty time as 11:15 am. I was going back with a different engineer. We had a student engineer. This train was over 15,000 feet long. We had 4 motors on the head end, 3 in the middle, and 1 on the rear. We got on at the steps and they ran us really good! We didn't stop until we were at West Needles. They brought us into Main 1. We had to wait a few for the outbound to come out but they came out right when they were on duty. I'm projected to go out tomorrow afternoon.

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