I got called for the S LPKSCO. It wasn't a bad train Under 7500 tons and under 7700 feet. On duty time was 8:25 am. We had 3 motors on the head end. Our third motor died. My engineer called diesel service and tired to get it going, but it was in vain. When we got to Barstow they told us to tie down our train at the East Barstow signal, Main 3. They told us that we woud have to take a van to the Barstow yard, grab a motor, and put it on the head end of our train. I tied 3 brakes and we did a release test. The van came and picked us up. I called Diesel Service and they said that we needed to take 2 DPs off a train in Receiver 9. They werw facing west. The van took us to Receiver 9. I got my in between and we did the separation. We asked the router if we could go around the balloon and he gave us permission We went around the balloon. My engineer ran us from the second motor, "long hood forward" so I wouldn't have to stand on the steps and protect the shove. We could see everything. We shoved back to our train on Main 3. I got out and we made the hook. I laced the hoses, but I closed the anglecock between the last motor and the first car. We did the locomotive air brake test. The van showed up and Diesel Service showed up in a truck. They would have to do the "dynamic brake test." The van ran me to the rear end of our train. I would have to arm the ETD. We could go straight to the rear of our train-we were blocked by the gate at the Marine base. So we got on the freeway and went around. The van still couldn't take me all of the way to the rear of our train. There was a train in the siding at Nebo. I climbed over it and I had to walk quite a distance west to get to the rear of my train on Main 3. I told my engineer the ETD # and pressed the button. It armed. I told him, "pop it." He put the train into emergency. I made it back to my van,. It was a long walk. The van took me to the head of my train. We were done. The van took us to the hotel. We tied up with just under 12 hours on duty. I went to Fuzzy's for a burrito, watched some TV, and slept ike a log. I got up for the free breakfast right at 6. I had no sooner finished eating when I got my call. I was called for a Z train. On duty time was 8:20 am. In the van I found out that we had been swapped to a stack trian, then when I got to the depot and printed out our call boards I found out that we had been swapped to the H BARLUB. I asked the terminal manager why and he said it was because of a service interruption on the Cajon sub. Our power was on Ready 6, the first half of our train was in Departure 7, and the rear half was in Storage 11. Our train would have 5 motors on the head end, but the last two would be isolated. Our consist was facing the right way. I lined the switches and we headed out, but another motor was blocking us from getting out of Diesel service. Diesel Service told us to back up two motors so that motor could come in. I had to go to the rear of the consist and protect the shove. Once that motor go out of the way we came out and used D1 as a runner. We went over the switch and I shoved us back to our train. We made the hook, I laced the hoses, cut the air in, and the van arrived with perfect timing. He ran me to the rear of the train. I closed the angle cock, which was open, and released 3 brakes. I planned on riding to the storage yard in the cab with my engineer, and throwing switches as needed, but the Bow Tower told me to go ahead in the van and line the switches. I guess they were running behind. I went ahead in the van and lined my train out. Once the last car was clear of the switch leading to track 11 I stopped him. I lined us in to track 11, and shoved him back to a hook. I laced the hoses, cut the air in, released 3 brakes, and had the van run me to the rear. I armed the ETD, we id the Class III, and the two way. We were ready to go. The van ran me to the head of my train. We departed and we were going along pretty good. I looked in my IPAD and it said we wer to setout our 4th motor when we got to Needles. Normally the outbound helps us with that. Our train went into emergency. A track supervisort was coming at us in a truck and saw he saw a cloud of dust near the head end of our train. He boarded our train. When he saw me he said, "I trained you.' "In Denver?" "No, here." "I familiarized here when I came out from Denver." "That must have been it." He remembered that i had a younger wife. I told him "I'm divorced now." "Welcome to the railroad," he said. He had gone from being a conductor to being a track superivisor. He got in his truck and looked for the problem. He said it was the main hose between our 4th motor and our 5th one. My engineer went back and fixed it. We were on our way again. We stopped at East Goffs and waited over an hour . They had not called an outbound for us. Finally they told us to tie it down. I only had to tie 5 brakes. My engineer found a brake stick in one of the motors and I used it. That made it much easier. We did a release and it held. The game plan was that we were supposed to get on a Z train, ride it to a stack train where the crew was DOL. and try to take the stack train in. We had less than two hours to work. The Z train picked us up We got on the secondf motor. But the Z train went passed the train that we were sopposed to relieve. Evidently there had been a miscommunicataion. They sent a van out for the guys on that stack trian and they tied uup the same time as us. I tied up under 12 hours. I am now on a 3 day RISA. The other day some managers from Kanss City came out to talk to us about safety. They handed out some tokens. I have attached a picture of one. I'm going to enjoy my 3 days off.