-- Appendix No. 22 --

SPLIT VACATIONS

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT signed at Amarillo, Texas, July 9, 1963, as amended by provisions of Letter dated September 10, 1965, from General Managers Olson and Stuppi to General Chairman Potter.

IT IS ARGEED:

1. Effective January 1, 1966, employes subject to the terms of the National Vacation Agreement of April 29, 1949, as amended, who qualify for two, three or four weeks’ vacation, under the provisions of said National Agreement, will, upon written request, be permitted to split the vacation subject to the terms and conditions of this Memorandum of Agreement.

2. The vacation period of employes who qualify for 2 weeks’ vacation may be split into not more than two periods of one week each.

3. The vacation period of employes who qualify for 3 weeks’ vacation maybe split into not more than two periods as follows:

1. Three weeks split into two periods, one week for the first period and two weeks for the second period; or,

2. Three weeks split into two periods, two weeks for the first period and one week for the second period.

3. The vacation period of employes who qualify for four weeks’ vacation may be split into not more than two periods as follows:

(c-1)   Two weeks for the first period and two weeks for the second period; or,

(c-2)   Three weeks for the first period and one week for the second period; or,

(c-3)   One week for the first period and three weeks for the second period.

4. The Company will assume no additional expense in granting vacations as result of this agreement.

5. Employes desiring to split their vacations into two periods must make application therefor during the designated interval when applications are being accepted, prior to the compiling of the vacation schedule. No change in such application may be made following the close of this application period.

6. When two periods are requested, only one of such periods will be assigned during the months of June, July and/or August.

7. Section 6 of the 1949 Vacation Agreement provides in part:

   ”Due regard consistent with requirements of the service shall be given to the preference of the employe in his seniority order in the class of service in which engaged when granting vacations.”

   In applying the principle set forth above, consideration will be given to only one period of the split vacation in assigning vacations in any class of service. An employe requesting a split vacation will designate which period he desires considered in accordance with the above. After all employes of a particular class have been assigned one vacation period, in accordance with the above-quoted principle, the remaining split vacation period will be assigned to available unassigned periods with due regard to the employe in his seniority order in the class of service in which engaged, consistent with requirements of the service.

8. When relief for vacationing employes incurs deadheading, deadhead pay for one round trip only will be allowed for the combined relief period and payment shall be divided as follows:

   1. The relief employe deadheading to the outlying point to protect the first period will be allowed deadhead pay for the trip to the relief point;

   2. The relief employe returning home from the outlying point after completing relief for the second period will be allowed deadhead pay for the return trip.

   3. No deadhead pay will be allowed either to the relief employe returning home from protecting the first vacation period, or to the relief employe being sent to the outlying point to protect the second vacation period.

   4. Employes who are granted a split vacation and employes who are called to relieve them shall be responsible for keeping roundhouse clerks, timekeepers and others concerned fully informed of the precise conditions under which the vacation periods are being taken and under which the deadhead trips are made. Time allowances for deadhead trips for vacation relief shall not be made without such supporting data.

9. Section 7 of the 1949 Vacation Agreement provides in part:

   ”a. Vacations shall not be accumulated or carried over from one vacation year to another. However, to avoid loss of time by the employe at end of his vacation period, the number of vacation days at the request of the employe may be reduced in one year and adjusted in the next year.”

   In applying this principle, an employe desiring a split vacation will, when making the above request, adjust his next succeeding vacation period, regardless of whether it is scheduled in the same calendar year or the following calendar year, by observing the number of scheduled vacation days for that period plus the one carry-over day. In other words, an employe must eliminate any carry-over day at the first opportunity, and will not be permitted to carry over a vacation day in two successive periods.

10. When an employe’s third, fifteenth or twentieth anniversary of employment occurs in a year in which he has qualified to receive additional vacation and the employe by scheduling and starting his vacation after the anniversary date will be entitled to an additional week’s vacation, subject to the accumulation of 480, 2400 or 3200 days respectively, he must, in order to qualify for the additional week’s vacation under this agreement, schedule and start the first period of the split vacation on or after the third, fifteenth or twentieth anniversary date of his employment.

11. The rate of the last service performed prior to the date upon which the employe begins the first period of his vacation will be used in determining the total amount of vacation pay due the employe for the entire two vacation periods, or the entire vacation compensation if on a minimum day basis, the same as though the annual vacation had not been split into two periods.

12. In the application of Section (8) of the Agreement dated January 18, 1961, between the Railroads represented by the Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers’ Conference Committees and Employes represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, it is understood any employe whose relationship is terminated, and has no further connection with the Company will, upon such termination, be allowed any compensation due for a qualified vacation in that calendar year as well as any compensation due if qualified for a vacation in the succeeding year. It is further understood that after having received the vacation allowance, said employe, if later reinstated to service prior to the scheduled vacation period in that calendar year, his vacation for that calendar year, as well as the succeeding year, will be considered as having been completed and no further vacation or allowance in lieu of vacation will be due in that year.

    Vacation will be scheduled in the calendar year following the employe’s restoration to service in the usual manner and payment for vacation for that year computed in the usual way, or as if there had been no interruption of service, and any adjustment due when compared with the allowance previously made for vacation at the time service was terminated, will be adjusted.

13. This agreement may be automatically canceled at the end of any calendar year by the service of 90 days’ written notice of either party.

(Signatures not reproduced. Signed by General Managers Olson and Stuppi and General Chairman Potter.)

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-- Appendix No. 23 --

APPLICATION OF VACATION AGREEMENT

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT entered into and signed at Topeka, Kansas, January 5, 1945, as amended:

For general handling of the application of Vacation Agreement dated April 29, 1949, as amended, it is agreed unless and until changed by mutual agreement, the following procedure shall apply:

(1)   Bulletins will be posted in December, on each division, requesting each employe to express in writing his first, second and third choice of preferred starting date of vacation period.

(2)   Vacation schedules will be prepared by the Local Chairman and a representative of the Carrier on each division and will provide for a specific vacation period(s) for each employe qualifying for vacation, due consideration being given to employes’ seniority, choice of vacation periods and the needs of the service.

(3)   The classification, e.g., conductor, brakeman, engineer, fireman, etc., in which an employe is working at the time the vacation schedules are prepared will determine the schedule on which his name will appear, with the understanding that (1) no change will be made in the original vacation schedule even though an employe may be subsequently promoted or demoted to another class, and (2) his vacation allowance will be computed under the terms of the vacation agreement covering the classification in which the employe is working at the time of his vacation. For example, if an employe was originally scheduled for a vacation as a brakeman, but is working as a conductor at the time he was scheduled to start his vacation, no change will be made in his vacation dates, and he will be paid for the vacation or in lieu thereof under the terms of the Conductors’ Vacation Agreement.

(4)   Appropriate bulletins will be posted designating the vacation periods assigned to the respective employes.

(5)   Scheduled vacations will only be postponed where an employe is at his away-from- home terminal or en route to or from his home terminal on the date scheduled to start his vacation; the starting date will, in such instances, be considered the day following his arrival at the home terminal.

(6)   In the event no extra or relief employe is available to relieve an employe for scheduled vacation, he will be paid in lieu of ungranted vacation, it being understood that the protection of the current service needs will take precedence over the relief of employes for vacation purposes. In the event it is considered necessary to cancel vacations, the division supervision will contact the local chairman of the class concerned; however, the Company necessarily must continue to be the judge as to requirements for protecting the service.

(7)   No claims will be presented in behalf of or allowed to extra or relief employes in instances where it is impossible to relieve employes for vacations, and they are paid in lieu thereof as outlined in Item (6) above.

(8)   Trip tickets covering claims for vacations granted or for allowances in lieu of ungranted vacations will be submitted by the employes.

(9)   Deleted.

(Signatures not reproduced. Signed by General Managers Lautz and Jefferis and General Chairmen Kowalski, Stephens, Taylor and Mullen.)

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-- Appendix No. 24 --

PAID HOLIDAYS

(From Article 1 of National Agreement of June 25, 1964.)

Section 1 – Not applicable.

Section 2 - The following provisions shall apply to regularly assigned engineers, firemen, hostlers and hostler helpers represented by an organization party hereto in yard service, and regularly assigned road service employes paid on a daily basis:

(a)   Each regularly assigned engineer, fireman, hostler and hostler helper represented by an organization party hereto in yard service, and each regularly assigned road service employe in local freight service, including road switchers, roustabout runs, mine runs, or other miscellaneous service employes, who are confined to runs of 100 miles or less and who are therefore paid on a daily basis without a mileage component, and who meet the qualifications set forth in paragraph (c) hereof, shall receive one basic day’s pay at the rate for the class and craft of service in which last engaged for each of the following enumerated holidays when such holidays fall on the assigned work day of the work week of the individual employe:

New Year’s Day
Washington’s Birthday
Decoration Day
Fourth of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

Only one basic day’s pay shall be paid for the holiday irrespective of the number of shifts or trips worked.

(b)   Any of the employes described in paragraph (a) hereof who works on any of the holidays listed in paragraph (a) hereof shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half for all services performed on the holiday with a minimum of one and one-half times the rate for the basic day.

(c)   To qualify for holiday pay, a regularly assigned employe referred to in paragraph (a) hereof must be available for or perform service as a regularly assigned employe in the classes of service referred to on the work days immediately preceding and following such holiday, and if his assignment works on the holiday, the employe must fulfill such assignment. However, a regularly assigned employe whose assignment is annulled, cancelled or abolished, or a regularly assigned employe who is displaced from a regular assignment as a result thereof on (1) the workday immediately preceding the holiday, (2) the holiday, or (3) on the workday immediately following the holiday will not thereby be disqualified for holiday pay provided he does not lay off on any of such days and makes himself available for service on each of such days excepting the holiday in the event the assignment does not work on the holiday, and the holiday falls on a workday of his assignment. If the holiday falls on the last day of an employe’s work week, the first workday following his ”days off’ shall be considered the work day immediately following. If the holiday falls on the first work day of his work week, the last workday of the preceding work week shall be considered the workday immediately preceding the holiday.

(d)   Weekly or monthly guarantees shall be modified to provide that where a holiday falls on the work day of the assignment, payment of a basic day’s pay pursuant to paragraph (a) hereof, unless the regularly assigned employe fails to qualify under paragraph (c) hereof, shall be applied toward such guarantee. Nothing in this Section shall be considered to create a guarantee where none now exists, or to change or modify rules or practices dealing with the carrier’s right to annul assignments on the holidays enumerated in paragraph (a) hereof.

(e)   That part of all rules, agreements, practices or understandings which require that crew assignments or individual assignments in the classes of service referred to in paragraph (a) hereof be worked a stipulated number of days per week or month will not apply to the seven holidays herein referred to; but where such an assignment is not worked on a holiday, the holiday payment to qualified employes provided by this rule will apply.

(f)   As used in this rule, the terms ”workday” and ”holiday” refer to the day to which service payments are credited.

Section 3 - The following provisions shall apply to extra engineers, firemen, hostlers and hostler helpers represented by an organization party hereto on seniority rosters that confine exercise of seniority to a particular yard or yards:

(a)   Extra engineers, firemen, hostlers and hostler helpers represented by an organization party hereto on seniority rosters which confine the exercise of seniority to a particular yard or yards, who meet the qualifications provided in paragraph (b) of this Section 3 shall receive one basic day’s pay at the pro-rata rate on any of the following holidays:

New Year’s Day
Washington’s Birthday
Decoration Day
Fourth of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day

if any of the above-designated holidays falls on a work day or the work week as defined in paragraph (c) hereof.

Only one basic day’s pay shall be paid for the holiday irrespective of the number of shifts worked. If more than one shift is worked on the holiday, the allowance of one basic day’s pay shall be at the rate of pay of the first tour of duty worked.

(b)   To qualify, an extra yard service employe must -

1. perform yard service on the calendar days immediately preceding and immediately following the holiday, and be available for yard service the full calendar day on the holiday, or,

2. be available for yard service on the full calendar days immediately preceding and immediately following the holiday and perform yard service on such holiday, or

3. if such employe cannot qualify under Section 3(b)(1) or (b)(2), then in order to qualify he must be available for yard service on the full calendar days immediately preceding and immediately following and the holiday, or perform yard service on any one or more of such days and be so available on the other day or days.

(c)   For purposes of this Section 3, the work week for extra yard service employes shall be Monday through Friday, both days inclusive. If the holiday falls on Friday, Monday of the succeeding week shall be considered the work day immediately following. If the holiday falls on Monday, Friday of the preceding week shall be considered the work day immediately preceding the holiday.

(d)   Any of the extra yard service employes described in paragraph (a) of this Section 3 who works on any of the holidays listed therein shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half for all services performed on the holiday with a minimum of one and one-half times the rate for the basic day.

(e)   As used in this Section 3, the terms ”calendar day” and ”holiday” on which yard service is performed refer to the day to which service payments are credited.

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-- Appendix No. 25 --

EXPENSES AWAY FROM HOME

(From Article II of National Agreement of June 25, 1964)

Section 1 – When the carrier ties up a road service crew (except short turnaround passenger crews), or individual members thereof, at a terminal (including tie-up points named by assignment bulletins, or presently listed in schedule agreements or observed by practice, as regular points for tying up crews) other than the designated home terminal of the crew assignment for four (4) hours or more, each member of the crew so tied up shall be provided suitable lodging at the carrier’s expense or an equitable allowance in lieu thereof. Suitable lodging or an equitable allowance in lieu thereof shall be worked out on a local basis. The equitable allowance shall be provided only if it is not reasonably possible to provide lodging.

If an allowance is being made in lieu of lodging as well as other considerations under provisions of existing agreements, the amount attributed only to lodging shall be removed if suitable lodging is supplied, or offset against an equivalent allowance. This shall be worked out on a local basis.

Section 2 – When the carrier ties up a road service crew (except short turnaround passenger crews), or individual members thereof, at a terminal (as defined in Section 1) other than the designated home terminal for four (4) hours or more, each member of the crew so tied up shall receive a meal allowance of $1.50.

-- Appendix No. 26 --

LODGING AGREEMENT

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT entered into at Amarillo, Texas, March 20, 1965, between The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, Eastern and Western Lines, Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company, and their employes represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

IT IS AGREED THAT:

In the application of Article II, Expenses Away from Home, Section 1, of the Agreement dated June 25, 1964, (Appendix No. 25) the following will govern:

(1)   Suitable lodging will be provided at Carrier’s expense and the following will meet the standard of ”suitable lodging”:

1. A single occupancy bedroom, bed to be equipped with innerspring mattress or equivalent, sufficient blankets with clean linens (sheets, pillow cases and towels), with lavatory in room if not located in attached bathroom adequate bathing and toilet facilities either accessible from within the bedroom or available on the same floor. Where attached or adjoining bath and toilet facilities are available at the designated lodging facility, such rooms will be assigned to the extent available.

   NOTE:   Exception to this Paragraph (1)(a) may be made by mutual agreement of the parties hereto.

2. Bedrooms, bathrooms and toilet facilities will be kept in clean and sanitary condition.

3. Rooms will be temperature controlled.*

*Open gas flame type heaters are not acceptable.

(2)   At any location where lodging, as specified in Paragraph (1), cannot be provided at Carrier’s expense, in lieu thereof an allowance of $2.50 will be paid to employes governed by this agreement who qualify under Article II, Section 1, of the June 25, 1964 Agreement.

(3)   The allowances provided for in Paragraph (2) shall continue until suitable lodging, conforming to the standards set forth in Paragraph (1) above is provided by the Carrier.

(4)   Lodging as provided in this agreement will be made available to the employes during entire period of tie up.

(5)   If employes are tied up en route where meals and lodging are not available, under circumstances which make it impossible to reach their tie-up point or terminal, transportation will be furnished to a point where such facilities are available.

(6)   This agreement shall be effective as of 12:01 AM April 1, 1965, and shall remain in effect until changed by the following procedure:

In the event either party serves notice of desire to change or cancel this agreement, Carrier representative and the General Chairmen will, within thirty (30) days endeavor to reach an agreement. In the event the parties are unable to resolve the issue, the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, will be followed.

Signed at Amarillo, Texas, this 20th day of March, 1965.

(Signatures not reproduced. Signed by General Managers Olson and Stuppi and General Chairmen Potter, Miller, Stafford and Faulkner.)

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DEDUCTION AGREEMENT

This Agreement made at Amarillo, Texas, this 1st day of May, 1959, by and between The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, Eastern and Western Lines, including Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company, hereinafter referred to as the Company, and their employes represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, hereinafter referred to as the Organization.

IT IS AGREED:

Section 1.

(a)   Subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, the Company will deduct all sums for initiation fees, periodic dues, assessments and insurance premiums (not including fines and penalties) payable to the Organization by members of the Organization, employed by the Company, from wages earned in any services, upon the written and unrevoked authorization of a member, in the form agreed upon by the parties hereto, copy of which is identified as Attachment ”A” and made a part hereof.

(b)   The signed authorization may, in accordance with its terms, only be revoked by executing the revocation form specified herein within:

(1)   The fifteen (15) day period immediately following the first anniversary of the effective date of this agreement; or

(2)   Thereafter in any year within the fifteen (15)day period immediately following the anniversary date of this agreement.

Revocation of the authorization shall be in the form agreed upon by the parties, copy of which is identified as Attachment ”B” and made a part hereof.

(c)   Both the authorization forms and the revocation of authorization forms shall be reproduced and furnished to its members by the Organization, without cost to the Company. The Organization shall assume full responsibility for procuring the execution of the authorization forms by the members and for delivering such authorizations to the Company. In like manner, the revocation of an authorization shall be furnished by the member to the Organization, which shall be solely responsible for its delivery to the Company, as set forth in Section 2 hereof.

Section 2.

Deductions, as provided herein, shall be made by the Company in accordance with uniform certified deduction lists furnished to the Division Superintendent in duplicate by the Treasurer of the Local Lodge of which the employe is a member. Such lists, together with authorization and revocation of authorization forms, shall be furnished to the Division Superintendent on or before the tenth day of each month in which the deduction or termination of deduction is to become effective, as hereinafter provided. The original lists furnished shall show the member’s name, the member’s social security number, and the amount to be deducted, in the form approved by the Company. Thereafter, two lists shall be furnished each month by the Treasurer of the Local Lodge to the Division Superintendent, as follows:

(a)   A list showing any changes in the amounts to be deducted from the wages of members with respect to whom deductions are already being made. Such list shall show both the amounts previously authorized to be deducted and the new amounts to be deducted; also the names of members from whose wages no further deductions are to be made, which shall be accompanied by revocation of authorization forms signed by each member so listed. Where no changes are to be made, the list shall so state.

(b)   A list showing additional members from whose wages the Company shall make deductions as herein provided, together with an authorization form signed by each member so listed. Where there are no such additional members, the list shall so state.

Section 3.

Deductions, as provided for herein, will be made monthly by the Company from wages due members for the second period in each calendar month; and the Company will, subject to the provisions of Section 4 hereof, remit to the Organization the total amount of such deductions, less sums withheld in accordance with Section 5, on or before the twenty-fifth day of the month following the month in which such deductions are made. With such remittance the Company will furnish to the Treasurer of the Local Lodge a statement showing members from whom deductions were made and amount of deductions.

Section 4.

(a)   In the event earnings of a member are insufficient to permit the full amount of deduction, no deduction will be made and responsibility for collection shall rest entirely with the Organization.

(b)   The following payroll deductions shall have priority over deductions covered by this agreement:

Federal, State and Municipal taxes and other deductions required by law, including garnishments and attachments.

Amounts due the Company.

Hospital Association contributions.

Prior valid assignments and deductions.

(c)   In cases where no deduction is made from the wages of a member due to insufficient earnings, or for other reasons, the amounts not deducted shall not be added to deduction lists for the member for any subsequent payroll period.

Section 5.

(a)   In consideration of the services herein described, the Organization agrees that the Company shall retain, from the sum of all deductions made in each month, ten (10) cents per member from whom deduction is made in such month; and remit to the Treasurer of the Local Lodge the balance due the Organization.

(b)   If either party desires to change the charges provided for in Section 5 (a) hereof, the matter will be the subject of negotiation upon ten (10) days’ written notice from either party to the other without affecting the balance of this Agreement.

Section 6.

Responsibility of the Company under this agreement shall be limited to remitting the amounts actually deducted from wages of members, pursuant to this agreement, subject to Section (5)(a); and the Company shall not be responsible, financially or otherwise, for failure to make deductions or for making improper or inaccurate deductions. Any question arising as to the correctness of the amount deducted shall be handled between the member involved and the Organization.

Section 7.

The Organization shall indemnify, defend and save harmless the Company from any and all claims, demands, liability, losses or damage resulting from the entering into or complying with the provisions of this Agreement.

Section 8.

(a)   In the event of any change in the representation of the craft or class of employes presently represented by the Organization party hereto, this Agreement shall be automatically terminated as to such craft or class of employes as of the date official notification is received from the National Mediation Board of such change in representation as to such craft or class of employes.

(b)   This agreement shall become effective June 1st, 1959, and, except as provided in Sections 5(b) and 8(a), shall remain in effect until modified or changed in accordance with the provisions of the Railway Labor Act as amended.

(Signatures not reproduced. Signed by General Managers Buchanan and Landreth and General Chairman Potter.)

ATTACHMENT ”A”  

DEDUCTION AUTHORIZATION

I hereby assign to the BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS that part of my wages necessary to pay my initiation fees, periodic dues, assessments, and insurance premiums (not including fines and penalties) as reported to The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company, by the Treasurer of my Local Lodge in monthly statements, certified by him, as provided under the Deduction Agreement entered into by and between the Organization and the Company effective June 1st, 1959; and I hereby authorize the Company to deduct from my wages all such sums and to pay them over to the Treasurer of my Local Lodge.

This authorization may be revoked by the undersigned in writing, in the manner provided for in Section 1(b) of the Deduction Agreement.

Employe Social Security
Account No. ______________________

Date _________________, 19________

Signature ________________________________________________

Lodge No. _______________________________________________

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ATTACHMENT ”B”

DEDUCTION AUTHORIZATION
REVOCATION

Effective ________________________ , I hereby revoke the Deduction Authorization now in effect, assigning to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers that part of my wages necessary to pay my initiation fees, periodic dues, assessments and insurance premiums (not including fines and penalties) now being withheld pursuant to the Deduction Agreement between the Organization and the Company effective June 1st, 1959.

Employe Social Security
Account No. ______________________

Date _________________, 19________

Signature ________________________________________________

Lodge No. _______________________________________________

-- Appendix No. 28 --

COMBINED BOARD AGREEMENT

The following is representative of Combined Board Agreements that have been placed into effect on certain territories. IT IS UNDERSTOOD, HOWEVER, THAT HANDLING WILL BE GOVERNED BY THE ACTUAL AGREEMENT SIGNED COVERING EACH SUCH TERRITORY:

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT entered into between The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company - Eastern and Western Lines, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers covering creation and operation of a combined freight board for engineers.

IT IS AGREED:

1.   Engineers’ pool freight board and engineers’ freight extra board will be merged and the merged board will hereafter be considered a ”combined freight board.” This combined board to protect all work formerly protected by the freight extra board and passenger extra board when exhausted, qualifications permitting.

2.   When an engineer lays off the combined freight board or is used in passenger service, the vacancy will be filled by using the engineer next out on the combined board. The man laying off or used in passenger service will be marked up last out on the combined freight board when reporting for duty.

3.   Vacancies in other than pool freight service, including unassigned work trains and helpers, will be protected by the junior engineers assigned to the combined freight board, the number of such junior engineers subject to such service to be designated by the Superintendent in cooperation with the Local Chairman. The first in, first out rule will apply in calling engineers in such group. Pool freight service will be protected by engineers assigned to and available on the combined freight board, such engineers to be called first in, first out.

4.   An engineer on the combined freight board who is not available for call when he stands to protect other than pool freight service, or who lays off when he stands to protect other than pool freight service, will not be marked up on the board until the engineer who protects such service returns to the home terminal, at which time he will, if available, be marked up immediately behind the engineer who protects the service; provided, however, that if the call referred to in the foregoing is to protect service at an outside point, the engineer who does not protect his turn may, if he so desires, relieve the engineer who protects the service, no deadhead pay to be allowed the engineer who fails to protect his turn for either the trip to or from the outside point.

5.   A joint check of the miles accruing to the combined freight board will be conducted at regular intervals, not to exceed ten days. A day of the week or dates of the month on which mileage checks are to be conducted will be mutually agreed upon by the Superintendent or his representative and the Local Chairman. When a check is made, the number of miles accruing to the board in the preceding ten-day period will be multiplied by three.

6.   The number of engineers assigned to the combined freight board will not be increased or decreased as long as the average mileage, or equivalent thereof, accruing to the board is within the expressed minimum and maximum for freight; i.e., 3200 and 3800, respectively, per month. When increasing or decreasing the board, a sufficient number of engineers will be added to or taken off to bring the average miles accruing to the board as near 3500 as possible. Should this average be above 3500 miles, an engineer will be added if the addition will not bring the average below 3200 miles.

Should the number of engineers laying off and/or a sudden increase in business make it necessary to add engineers to the board to protect the service, the number of engineers added under such circumstances may be removed from the board without regard to mileage as soon as conditions will permit.

7.   In the event there is need for an engineer to protect other than pool freight vacancy and none of the designated junior men assigned to such combined freight board is available, the junior available engineer of those assigned to the combined freight board will be used until a designated junior man is available, the junior available engineer to receive pay for the outgoing, but not for the return deadhead trip; the designated junior man to receive deadhead pay only for the return deadhead movement.

8.   When reductions in the combined freight board are made they will be in reverse order of seniority (Article 19(k)).

9.   In placing this handling into effect, no claims for runaround or penalty payment resulting there from will be allowed.

-- Appendix No. 29 --

HANDLING CIRCUS TRAINS
IN MAY 7, 1937 YARDS

Letter agreement, General Managers Lautz and Gillies to General Chairmen Kowalski, Keiser, Collins and Gross, June 20, 1940:

Although it was pointed out no discussion was had, or consideration given, the handling of circus trains under the rule in the Conductors’ and Trainmen’s respective agreements at the time the May 7th switching agreement was negotiated, and it had not therefore been considered that work performed by road crew in handling circuses was intended to require application of the switching agreement, it has been decided, as you were advised, that the application will be made where crews handle circus at points covered by the switching agreement.

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-- Appendix No. 30 --

YARD ENGINEERS FORCE ASSIGNED TO
VACANCIES AT OUTSIDE POINTS

Letter Agreement,. General Managers Olson and Stuppi to General Chairman McFather, April 16, 1966:

This is to record the understanding that, effective May 1, 1966, an engineer force assigned to a permanent vacancy on an outside yard assignment for which no bid received will be allowed pay under the deadhead rules.