I got called for the H KCKBAR." On dtuy time was 8:30 am. When I got down to the depot and I found out we had been swapped to the V BIRBAR," a vehicle train that goes from Birmingham, Alabama to Barstow. I found out that we had some manifest cars on the head end- so it was really an H train. When we get this train we never know how we are going to yard it. We might break it up and put it on different tracks in the Storage yard, we might put half of it in the Storage yard and the other half in the Receiving Yard, or we might put the whole thing in the Receiving Yard. In this case we never found out. We had a good trip up until we got to Dagget, then we sat there for a while. Then we moved up to East Barstow and sat there for an hour. Then the dispatcher told us to tie our train down and there was a van on the way. I only had to tie two brakes. I went strahght to the hotel. I grabbed a burrito from Fuzzy's went to bed and got called for an X train at 5:15 am. Breakfast at the hotel was early and the van was late so it worked out pretty good. I got something to eat before I got on the van. The terminal manager said that our train was in I1 and we had to setout a "bad order" to I4. He gave me the car # and said it was 40 cars back. We had to wait for a van. When we got one we asked the van driver to hang with us to assist us and he said that whe would. We asked the router if we could make our move and he said no because a west bound train was coming into I2 and was setting out to I3. We thought that we should go first because our setout would not take very long. Our van finally had to take off to help someone else. Of couse, it was just before we made out move. I had my engineer pull the bad car up to me. I tied 3 cars behind it and made the cut. I rode the car over the switch, and when the router threw it I rode the car into I4. The router told us that the other crew was shoving into I4 from the west end and I should watch for them. This was a situation that could have been dangerous, but they stayed way at the other end of the track. I took the car over the derail, tied the brake, did the "single car securement, cut it away, and put the derail up. I rode the car over the switch, and then shoved it back to my train. I laced the hoses, cut the air in, and untied the three brakes. A differnet van showed up to take me to the head end of my train. We had a good trip back and got relieved around 3:30. I rolled my train by and tied up. I have attached a picture of our leader, the 6438. Also, there is a poster published by my union on the bulletin board of the depot with a picture of an Erie Lackawanna engine on it. The Erie Lackawanna used to go through my home town of Mount Morris, New York. They got bought out by Conrail in 1976. It's interesteig that the SMART Union has a picture of an Erie Lackawanna engine on the poster since they haven't existed since 1976. Most people out here have never heard of the Erie Lackawanna.