1948 BLE ATSF Agreement

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Article / Letter Abolishing position of extra passenger engineer 8(d) Adjustment of difference in time allowance 30 Affidavits—Engineers called on for 28 Agreement: -- Change — Of notice to be given 38 Effective date 38 Service contrary to 36 Alvey Junction, turning trains on wye Letter 28 Annulling of regular trains 2(c) Appeals—Discipline cases 10 Application for preferred runs 4(b) Application of Article 5, exchanging passenger engines Letter 68 Arbitrary: -- Allowances—Branch runs 20 Allowances—Elimination of 17(e), 22(j) Allowance to engineer Train 217 at Somerville Letter 2 Allowance to engineer Trains 291-292 at Oakdale Letter 15 One hundred mile districts 17(a) Assigned: -- Districts—Where run off 3 To contractor’s service 11(b) To districts 3(c) To home terminals and regular turns 3(a) Assignments, freight on Dallas District Letter 57 Assisting Trains within switching limits by yard crews Letter 54 Attending Investigations, Pay for Letter 26 Attending lawsuits, etc. — Pay for 28 Authority to run Engineers off district 3(c)	List of Agreements Article 1-8 Article 9-23 Article 24-38 Side Letters Vacations Mileage & OT Tables Index
Backing up at night 32 Ballast trains 21(b) Beaumont Division Engineers run to Quarry 3(c) Beaumont-Silsbee turn-around run, pay for second trip Letter 14 Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant Agreement Letter 53 Board of Inquiry: -- Appeal from decision of 10(a) Discharge of Engineer 10(a) Branch Lines: -- Assigned crews used in temporary work train service Letter 12 Extra service on Weatherford District Letter 22 Manning runs on Lometa-Eden District Letter 25 Mileage made by crews 20(a) Pay for switch and hostler work 17(g) Repairs to engines 20(b) Second trips on Houston-Alvin Runs Letter 17 Service performed off of 20(a) Turn-around assignments with only one terminal Letter 7 Brownwood, head-end switching passenger trains Letter 42 Bulletin of weights on drivers 34(c) Bumping in on System Rights Jobs Letter 19 Butlerburg, included in switching limits of Conroe Letter 47
Called: -- And released 12(b) One hour and thirty minutes in advance 12(a) To perform service contrary to Agreement 36 Calling for Rest Letter 33 Carthage Switcher Assignment Letter 43 Chain Gang Service:-- Between Silsbee and Somerville Letter 47 Run first in, first out 3(d) Taking turn in 2(g) Change of: -- Agreement—Notice to be given 38 Class of power 2(f) District—Transportation 7 Major portion of lay over 2(g) Runs to reach home 6 Changing destination of Crews 25(e), 25(j) Changing locations 3(b) Charges against Engineer’s record 9 Checking mileage made by Engineers 8½(a),(b),(c),(d) Circus Trains: -- Colburn Rodeo Specials Letter 56 Overtime switching 16(i) Watching engines 16(i) Class of service changed 2(e) Cleburne and East Dallas freight assignments Letter 57 Committee of conference—Right to act on 10(a) Company business—Pay when attending 28 Compliance with laws—Time on duty 25(j) Computing special allowances 17(i) Contractors—Employed by 11(b) Contractor’s service—Assigned to 11(b) Conversion Rule 16(a) Copy of investigation furnished 10(a) Crews tied up account laws 25
Dallas-Celeste turn-arounds Letter 40 Date in effect—Agreement 38 Deadheading: -- In connection with held-away-from-home-terminal rule Letter 24 In connection with outlying jobs Letter 46 Pay for 27 Decision of Board of Inquiry—Appeal from 10(b) Delivery of cars to Galveston Wharf Company Letter 37 Demoted Engineers: -- Holding run as Fireman 1(f) Holding yard assignments Letter 44 Depositions — Engineers called on for 28 Designation of home point by Engineers 2(e) Disabled engine—Engineer to remain with 4(c) Disabled Engineer—Run to be posted 4(c) Discharged—When not to be 10(a) Dismissed and reinstated—Pay allowed 10(a) Dismissed and returning to service 11(a) Dispute as to amounts due 30 Distribution of power Letter 52 Districts: -- Assigned to 3(a) Authority to run off 3(c) Change of—Transportation 6 Run off—Pay when 3(c) Double time not to be paid 29 Doubling hills—Rate of pay for 17(j) Doubling trains within switching limits Letter 55 Dublin District Crews delivering trains to Saginaw Letter 29 Duty — Evidence as to unfitness for 12(c)
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Eating and Sleeping Accommodations 31 Eating — Time for 31(a) Efficiency tests 34(d) Electric Service 15(c)(d)(e), 35 Elimination of arbitraries and special allowances 17(e)(f), 22(j) Emergency side or lap-back trips 17(k) Engines: -- Exchanged at outlying points Letter 62 Inspectors furnished 34(b) Moved in distribution of power Letter 52 Pay for being held to receive or deliver 24(b) Rating of 17(j) Repairs to branch line 20(b) Run through terminals 3(c), 21(b) Engineers: -- Accepting preferred runs—designating home point 2(e) Assigned to home terminals and regular turns 3(a) Changing locations 3(b) Dismissed and returned to service 11(a) Off thirty days or more account sickness—run posted 4(c) Taking preferred run—select run of youngest man 2(g) To be given preference in Electric Service 35 To be run first-in, first-out 3(d) To remain with disabled engine 5 To watch engine 16(i), 21(c), 25(j) Entering service—Employed by 1 Evidence of being unfit for duty 12(c) Exchanging engines at outlying points Letter 62 Exchanging disabled engines in passenger service Letter 68 Extension of time to appeal 10(b) Extra Board: -- Manning outlying boards 8(a), Letter 65 Mile regulation 8½(b) Privilege of going on 2(d) Reduction of 8½(h) Reduction of Letter 45 Regulation of 8(a) Transfer from one to another Letter 20, Letter 23 Extra Engineers: -- Entitled to preferred run, except passenger 8(e) Entitled to regular run 8(d) Entitled to stub passenger work 8(e) Entitled to temporary work train service Letter 34 Passenger 8(d) Regulate number needed 8(c) Temporarily assigned 8(b) Transferred 8(a) Transferred—Return of 8(d) Twenty-six hundred mile minimum 8(a) Extra Passenger engineers 8(d) Extra switch engineers 23(c) Extra trips in connection with own train 17(l)	List of Agreements Article 1-8 Article 9-23 Article 24-38 Side Letters Vacations Mileage & OT Tables Index Top of Page
Final Terminal Delay: -- Freight 17(c),(d) Passenger 15(j)(4), 15(j)(8) First-In, First-Out: -- Engineers to be run 3(d) Running out of terminals Letter 32 Fort Worth: -- Freight crews—Picking up and setting out Letter 30 & 31 Head-end switching passenger trains Letter 59 Hostling passenger engines Letter 50 Freight cars in passenger trains 15(i) Freight men given passenger work 8(d) Freight Service: -- Assigned to home terminals and regular turns 3(a) Basic day 16(f) Circus, show and inspection trains 16(i) Local freight service 16(b) Mileage regulation 8½(a) Mixed trains 16(h) New type of locomotive 16(d) Overtime 16(f),(g) Posting of runs and turns 4(a),(b) Rates of pay 16(a) Terminal delay 17(b),(c) Terminal switching 17(h) Turn-arounds 17(k),(l)
Galveston Wharf Company, delivery of cars to Letter 37 Grease cups, etc. — Engineers filling 34(a) Grievances — Handling of 37 Guarantee: -- Mileage regulation 8½(b) Passenger service daily minimum 15(b)
Hale, picking up and setting out Letter 61 Headlights—Cleaning of 34(a) Held-away-from-home-terminal 26(a),(b),(c),(d) Held-away-from-home-terminal rule—deadheading Letter 24 Held to receive and deliver engines 24(b) Helper service: -- Irregular between Brownwood and Coleman Letter 35 & 36 Rate of pay 18 Time to commence and end 18 Home point—To be designated 2(e) Home terminals 2(a), 26(d),(e) Hostlers—Where furnished 15(l) Hostler Positions: -- Incapacitated engineers—Assigned to 23(d) Seniority governing 23(d) Hostler work—Branch lines—Pay for 17(g) Hours of service law 25 Houston: -- HB&T — Yard Limits Letter 48 Houston - Alvin switcher assignment Letter 49 Second trip on Houston - Alvin Runs Letter 17
Initial terminal delay: -- Freight service 17(b) Passenger Service 15(j) Inspection of Engineer’s records 9 Inspection of Engines 34(a),(b) Inspection trains 16(i) Inspectors furnished — Engine 34(b) Investigation of charges against record 9 Copy furnished 10(a) Persons allowed present 10(a) Waived 9 Witnesses 10(a) Investigations — Pay for Attending Letter 26
Lap-back and side trips 17(k) Laws — Tying up on account of 25 Lawsuits—Pay for attending 28 Laying off and missing call 12(d) Learning road—Pay for 27(d) Learning road—Pilot furnished 27(d) Less than 30 minutes not to be counted 17(i) Light engine — Pay for running 24(a) Light engine — Pilot furnished 33 Local freight service—Rate of pay 16(b) Location — Changing 3(b) Lometa - Eden District—Manning of Service Letter 25 Longview, Turning Trains 201-202 on wye Letter 58
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Manning Outlying Extra Boards Letter 65 Manning Train Service on Dublin and Menard Districts Letters 8, 9, 10 & 11 Major portion of lay-over changed 2(e) Meal hour — Yard service 22(i) Menard, turning motor car and engines Train 81 Letter 51 Messengering Motor cars Letter 6 Mileage increased or decreased 2(e) Mileage made by branch line crews 20 Mileage regulation 8½ Reduction of Engineers’ extra board 8½(h),(i),(j) Registering and checking of mileage 8½(g) Minimum daily earnings guarantee — Passenger service 15(b) Missing Calls 12(d) Missing Calls Letter 18 Mixed service—Rates of pay 16(h) Motor car service 15(e)	List of Agreements Article 1-8 Article 9-23 Article 24-38 Side Letters Vacations Mileage & OT Tables Index Top of Page
New types of locomotives — Rate of pay 16(d) Not to be discharged — Fair and impartial hearing-- 10(a) Not to run farther than first terminal 3(c) Notification of charges against record 9 Notification of date of promotion 1(d) Notice of appeal from decision of Board of Inquiry 10(b) Notice to be given — Change of agreement 38
Oakdale, arbitrary allowance to engine crew on Trains 291-292 Letter 15 Overtime: -- Circus, show and inspection trains 16(i) Freight service 16(f),(g) Hundred mile arbitraries 17(a) Irregular or special trains 15(g) Passenger service 15(g),(h) Passenger trains held at stations 15(k) Short turn-arounds 15(g) Terminal 15(j) Tying up between terminals 25(a) Yard service 22(c)
Passenger Service: -- Basic day 15(f) Bumping in on System Rights Jobs Letter 19 Electric locomotives 15(c) Exchanging disabled engines enroute Letter 68 Extra passenger engineers 8(d) Freight engineers entitled to 8(d) Freight engineers remaining on runs during layover days Letter 13 Freight men on outlying jobs not available Letter 1 Handling freight cars 15(i) Head-end switching at Brownwood Letter 42 Head-end switching at Fort Worth Letter 59 Head-end switching at Temple Letter 27 Held at stations on schedule 15(k) Hostlers for passenger trains 15(l) Mileage regulation 8½(a) Minimum daily guarantee 15(b) Motor cars 15(e) Overtime: -- Irregular or special trains 15(h) Other trains 15(h) Short turn-arounds 15(g) Posting runs 4(a) Protection of extra passenger service Letter 42 Qualification for passenger service Letter 67 Rates of pay 15(a) Short turn-arounds 15(g) Stub passenger work 8(e) System rights to govern 2(a) Terminal Delays: -- Final 15(j) Initial 15(j) Waive rights to Letter 1 Pay allowed when reinstated 10(a) Pay begins and ends 14 Pay increased or decreased 2(e) Pay for: -- Attending investigations Letter 26 Deadheading 27 Doubling 17(j) Helper service 16(a) Learning road 27(d) Runarounds 3(d) Switching and hostler work—Branch lines 15(g) Switching terminals 17(h) Permission to reduce trains 17(j) Personal record of engineers 9 Persons allowed present at investigations 10(a) Physical examinations Letter 64 Picking up and setting out at Fort Worth Letter 30 & 31 Picking up and setting out at Hale Letter 61 Pilot furnished for learning road 27(d) Pilot furnished for light engines 30 Posting: -- Notice of seniority rank 1(e) Preferred runs 4(a) Run—Engineer disabled 30 days or more 4(c) Run—Service changed or mileage increased, etc. 2(e) Run—When change in major portion of lay-over 2(e) Vacant freight turns 4(b) Vacant switch engines 23(a) Power—Change in class of 2(f) Preferred runs 2(a) Posting of 4(a) Regular engineers entitled to go out on 2(c) To be governed by seniority 2(a) What constitutes 2(a) Preferred service—Taking run in 2(g) Privilege to run engineer off district 3(c) Promotion: -- Manner of 1(a) Men promoted and used out of turn 1(c) Notification of date of 1(d) Protection of extra passenger service Letter 42 Protection of service under mileage regulation 8½(e)
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Rate of pay: -- Attending lawsuits, etc. 28 Called and not used 12(b) Circus, show and inspection trains 16(a) Deadheading 27 Doubling 17(j) Freight Service 16(a) Held to receive or deliver engines 24(b) Helper engines 16(a) Learning road 27(d) Local freight service 16(b) Mixed service 16(h) New types of locomotives 16(d) Overtime 15(g),(h), 16(f),(g), 22(c) Passenger service 15(a) Running light 24(a) Switcher service 16(c) Watching engine 16(i), 21(c), 25(j) Work service 16(a) Yard service 22(a) Rating of engines 17(j) Record of engineers 9 Reduced switch Engineers—Seniority 22(m) Reduction of Engineers’ extra list 8½(j) Reducing trains — Permission for 17(j) Registering and checking of mileage 8½(g) Registering in at roundhouse Letter 63 Regulation of mileage 8½(a) Regulation of extra board 8(a) Regular trains annulled 2(c) Reinstated — Dismissed and 10(a) Repairs to engines—Branch lines 20(b) Rest: -- Calling for Letter 33 Ten hours allowed 13(a) Retention of seniority when cut off 8½(j) Return of men transferred 8(c) Revision of seniority list 1(b) Rights of engineers to regular runs or turns 2(g) Right of appeal 10(a) Road engineers in switch service 22(l) Rodeo Special, Operation of Letter 56 Run-around 3(d) Run first-in, first-out 3(d) Run off district: -- Authority for being 3(c) Pay for being 3(c) Run through terminals 3(c), 21(b) Run to Quarry — Beaumont Division Engineers 3(c) Running for fuel or water 17(l) Running light — Pay for 24(a) Running out of initial terminal basis first in, first out Letter 32 Running through San Augustine, chain gang crews Letter 21	List of Agreements Article 1-8 Article 9-23 Article 24-38 Side Letters Vacations Mileage & OT Tables Index Top of Page
Saginaw, yarding Dublin District Trains Letter 29 San Augustine, running chain gang crews through Letter 21 Seniority: -- Engineers hired or permanently transferred 1(i) Held by reduced switch engineers 23(a),(b) In switch service 23(a),(b) List —Revision of — copies furnished 1(b) Men promoted and used out of turn 1(c) Posting notice of rank 1(e) Preferred runs to be governed by 2(a) Taking preferred runs by right of 2(g) When commences 1(a) When cut off extra list 8½(h) Service: -- Changed — Class of 2(f) Contrary to agreement 36 Dismissed from and returning to 11(a) In two or more classes of 16(e) Performed off of branch 20(a) Shop yard service 22(m) Short turn-arounds 15(g), 17(l), 19 Show trains 16(a), 16(i) Overtime 16(i) Rate of Pay 16(a) Watching engines 16(i) Sickness — Off 30 days or more — Run posted 4(c) Side and lap-back trips 17(k) Somerville, arbitrary allowance to engineer Train 217 Letter 2 Somerville, Tie Plant Agreement Letter 39 Special allowances — Elimination of 17(e), 22(j) Stub passenger work 8(e) Supplies — Placing on engine 34(a) Surrendering run when departing and arriving time changed, etc. Letter 3 Sweetwater, Hostling passenger engines Letter 66 Switch engines—Posting vacant 23(a) Switch engineers:-- Extra 23(c) Reduction of board 23(c) Rights of 23(b) Switcher assignment between Houston and Alvin Letter 49 Switcher assignment out of Carthage Letter 43 Switching:-- Application of Rules Letter 4 Branch line—Pay for 20(a) Circus, show or inspection trains 16(i) Setting out bad order, no-bill cars, etc. Letter 5 Terminals — By road engines 17(h) Switcher service 16(c)(1)
Taking preferred runs 2(g) Temple, head-end switching passenger trains Letter 27 Temple, turning motor car on wye, Train 73 Letter 58 Temporary vacancies 4(c) Ten hours rest 13(a) Terminals: -- Assigned to home 3(a) Delays—Final Freight Service 17(c) Delays—Final Passenger Service 15(j) Delays—Initial Freight Service 17(b) Delays—Initial Passenger Service 15(j) Designated as home 2(a) Engines to be run through 3(c), 21(b) Right to change runs at 7 Terminal Switching: -- Computation of 17(h) Pay for 17(h) Tie Plant at Somerville, handling self-propelled equipment Letter 39 Time: -- Adjustment of difference in regard to 30 Not to be paid double time 29 When begins and ends 14 Time limit on claims 10(c),(d) Time to appeal—Extension of 10(b) Time to commence and end—Helper service 18 Time set to depart—when called 12(a) Tonnage Rating of Engines Letter 38 Towed or deadheaded into terminal 25(j) Example 5 Trains annulled—Regular 2(c) Transferred—Extra Engineers 8(c) Transferred men—Return of 8(c)(d) Transportation of Committee of Conference 10(a) Transportation—Change of district 7 Turn-arounds: -- Freight 17(l) Passenger 15(g) Turning engines and/or trains: -- Alvey Junction (San Angelo) Letter 28 Longview, Trains 201-202 Letter 58 Menard, Passenger Train 81 Letter 51 Temple, Train 73 Letter 58 Two or more classes of engines 16(e) Two or more classes of service 16(e) Tying up between terminals—Pay for 25(j) Example 5 Tying up crews account laws 25
Unfit for duty — Evidence of 12(c) Using crews in the aggregate Letter 16
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Watching engines: -- Circus show and inspection trains 16(i) Tied up account hours of service law 25(Example 3) Work trains 21(c) Weatherford District, protection of extra service Letter 22 Wedges, etc.—Roundhouse force to take care of 34(a) Weight on drivers—Bulletin of 34(c) When men need rest 13(a) Witnesses at investigations 10(a) Work Train Service: -- Ballast trains 21(b) Engine watchmen furnished 21(c) Incidental work train service by yard crews Letter 41 Pay when not used 21(a) Rates of pay 16(a) Run through terminals 21(b) Use of branch line crews Letter 12 Use of extra engineers for temporary work train service Letter 34 Work trains discontinued 2(d)
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Yard Service: -- Assignments 22(d) Assignments of less than 5 days per week 23(b)(4) Basic day 22(b) Change of two hours in starting time 23(b)(3) Changing home yard 23(b)(1), 23(b)(2) Extra board 23(c) Meal period 22(i) Mileage regulation 8½(c) On and off duty — Designated point 22(g),(h) Overtime 22(c)(1), 22(c)(2) Pay when used in road service 22(k) Permanent switch engineers—Rights of 23(b) Posting vacant jobs 23(a) Rates of pay 22(a) Reduction in force 23(c) Rights of switch engineers 23 Road crews doubling their trains within switching limits Letter 55 Road engineers used in yard service 22(i) Shop yard service 22(m) Starting time of assignments 22(e) Yard crews assisting trains in yards Letter 54 Yard crews handling Store Department Crane Letter 60 Yard crews performing work service during tour of duty Letter 41 Yard limits—Switch engineers run out of 22(k)	List of Agreements Article 1-8 Article 9-23 Article 24-38 Side Letters Vacations Mileage & OT Tables Index Top of Page

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