Friday, April 10, 2026
I got caled for the KCKBAR. On duty time was 4:30 pm. It was a huge train- with 4 motors on the head end, 2 in the middle, and one on the rear. The dispatcher asked us to go out to East Needles to relieve the inbound because they were almost DOL. So we went out there in the van. We sat there for a while. They didn't run us very well. We really doubted that we would make it to Barstow before going DOL. Bu they brought us in with less than two hours to work. The router told us to come into Receiver 7 make the cut, and then shove the first half of our train into Yard 6. I told him we were DOL at 4:30 am. We pulled into R7. I called a van. I got out and had my engineer pull ahead. I stoped him when the DPs were in fornt of me. I told the van to meet me at the east end of R6. I tied 3 brakes and cut my train away behind the 2 DPs. I rode the steps of the last DP. We went over the switch and I had my engineer stop. When the router threw the switch I started the shove. We shoved back until the front of our train was behind the clearance markers. A yard job had been told to put our DPs away, since we didn't have time. I had the van run me to the head end of my train. I tied 3 brakes and cut the 4 motors away. We took them to the roundhouse. I had to throw 3 switches toline us into track 13. We pulled nto 13 and went DOL while we were walking form the roundhouse to the depot.
It was about 5 am when I got to the hotel, I checked in, showered, and went down for breakfast at 6. I slept a good 8 hours and wentt o Fuzzy's for a burrito. I was showing for a Z train then a Deadhead, then the Bartul. I got called for a stack train at 5:30 pm. On duty time was 7 pm. We got on our train at the steps. It had 4 motors n the head end and 1 on the rear. We had a great trip! Just over 4 hours I tried to roll my train by but Amtrak pulled up and was in the way. I'm projected to go out tomorrow afternoon. I have attached a picture of our leader, the 7662.
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