Thursday, April 2, 2026
I got called for a good train the Z ATGLAC. It was a 6 hour trip. We got in by midnight. My engineer and I hoped hat we would go aout around noon the next day and have another daylight trip. Well, it didn't turn out that way. I sat in my hotel room for a long time. I finally got called for the H BARTUL at 7pm. The IPAD said it was a big train, over 11,000 tons. It had 4 motors on the head end, one in the middle, and one on the rear. I thought sure that the yard crew would be buiding it, since they usually build trains with a DP. But when I talked to the terminal manager he said that he only had one yard crew and they had something else to do. My engineer and I would have to build it. It was cold and windy. We went out to the roundhouse. We had a consist of six engines. My engineer could not see because our lead endne had another motor in front of it and we were facing the worong way. I had to shove him out of diesel service, around the balloon, and to the west end of departure 2. We hooked the DP onto the rear of our train and I laced the hoses. We cut away and used I1 as a runner. We put our other DP on the east end of the same cut of cars. From there we had to pull ahead and then shove back into D7 to hook onto the front end of our train. I called for a van. I made sure that all of the cars were ther and all of the brakes were released. Then came the hard part. I had my engineer pull the cut over the 57 switch and shoved him into D2. (The van driver was not very helpful.).
When we made the hook I laced the hoses and cut the air in. I made sure all of the cars were there and released the brakes at the est end of D2. The van diriver took me to the head end of my train and I released her. We had been on duty since 8:30 pm and were ready to go at 2 am. We had to wait to come out of D7 for a while due to traffic in the yard. My IPAD said that when we got to Needles we would have to pick up 3 cars from Yard 7. Then it said we had to pick up 8 cars from Yard 7. The dispatcher told us that the outbound would do the pick up. I had to throw two siwtches to get us into Yard 2. We had 90 minutes left to work when the outbound relieved us. I'm projected to go to work around 11:30 Pm tonight. No pictures.
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