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Article 25
Deadheading
Section 1
A Deadheading and service may be combined in any manner that traffic conditions require, and when so combined employees shall be paid
actual miles or hours on a continuous time basis, with no less than a minimum day, for the combined service and deadheading. However,
when deadheading from the away-from-home terminal to the home terminal is combined with a service tap from such home terminal to such
away-from-home terminal and the distance between the two terminals exceeds the applicable mileage for a basic day, the rate paid for the
basic day mileage portions of the service tap and deadhead shall be at the full basic daily rate.
B. Employees deadheading into their home terminal can have their deadhead combined with service out of that terminal only when the
deadhead and service comes within the provisions of short turnaround service rules.
Section 2
When deadheading is paid for separate and apart from service:
A For employees whose seniority date in a craft covered by this Agreement precedes November 1, 1985:
A minimum day, at the basic rate applicable to the class of service in connection with which deadheading is performed, shall be allowed for
the deadheading, unless actual time consumed is greater, in which event the latter amount shall be allowed.
B. For employees whose seniority date in a craft covered by this Agreement is established after November 1, 1985:
Compensation on a minute basis, at the basic rate applicable to the class of service in connection with which deadheading is performed,
shall be allowed. However, if service after deadheading to other than the employee's home terminal does not begin within 16 hours after
completion of deadhead, a minimum of a basic day at such rate will be paid. If deadheading from service at other than the employee's home
terminal does not commence within 16 hours of completion of service, a minimum of a basic day at such rate will be paid.
A minimum of a basic day also will be allowed where two separate deadhead trips, the second of which is out of other than the home terminal,
are made with on intervening service performed. Non-service payments such as held-away-from-home terminal allowance will count toward
the minimum of a basic day provided in this Section 2 B.
Section 3
Deadheading will not be paid where not paid under existing rules.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The following examples illustrate application of the rule to all employees regardless of when their seniority date in train or engine service was
established, except where specifically stated otherwise:
Question 1:
What payment would be due a trainman who performed road service on a train of 81 cars from A, the home terminal, to B, the
away-from-home terminal, a distance of 170 miles, and deadhead combined between A-B-A?
Answer.
A minimum day and 70 over-miles for the service and a minimum day and 70 over-miles for the deadhead, all at the 81-105 car rate, with
service and deadhead combined.
Question 2:
What would be the payment under Question 1 if the distance between A and B were 75 miles?
Answer.
A minimum day and 50 over-miles, all at the 81-105 car rate.
Question 3:
What payment would be due a trainman who performed road service on a train of 81 cars from A to B, a distance of 170 miles, taking rest at
B, and then being deadheaded separate and apart from service from B to A, with the deadhead consuming 8 hours?
Answer.
A minimum day and 70 over-miles, all at the 81-105 car rate for the service trip from A to B, and a minimum day at the basic rate ( no car
count) applicable to the class of service in connection with which the deadheading is performed.
Question 4:
What payment would be due a trainman who performed road service on a train of 81 cars from A to B, a distance of 170 miles, taking rest at
B, and then deadheading separately from service B to A, with the deadhead being completed in 10 hours?
Answer
He would be paid a minimum day and 70 over-miles, all at the 81-105 car rate for the service trip from A to B, and 10 hours straight time rate
of pay at the basic rate ( no car count) applicable to the class of service in connection with which the deadheading is performed.
Question 5:
A trainman operates a train from his home terminal, point A, to the away-from-home terminal, point B, a distance of 170 miles. Upon arrival at
the away-from-home terminal, he is ordered to deadhead separate and apart from service, to the home terminal. The time deadheading is 5
hours. What payment is due?
Answer.
A minimum day plus 70 over-miles for service. A minimum day for deadhead if employees' seniority antedates the date of this Agreement;
otherwise, 5 hours.
Question 6:
Would at least a minimum day at the basic rate (no car count) applicable to the class of service in connection with which the deadheading is
performed be paid when a deadhead is separate and apart from service and the actual time consumed is the equivalent of a minimum day or
less?
Answer.
Yes, for employees whose seniority antedates the date of the Agreement Actual time will be paid to others.
Question 7:
A trainman is called to deadhead from point A to point B, a distance of 50 miles, to operate a train back to point A He is instructed to
combine deadhead and service. Total elapsed time for the deadhead and service is 7 hours, 30 minutes. What payment is due?
Answer.
A minimum day.
Question 8:
A trainman is called to deadhead from point A to point B, a distance of 50 miles, to operate a train from point B to point C, a distance of 75
miles. He is instructed to combine deadhead and service. Total elapsed time is 10 hours. What payment is due?
Answer.
A minimum day plus 25 over-miles.
Question 9:
A trainman operates a train from point A to point B, a distance of 50 miles. He is ordered to deadhead back to point A, service and
deadhead combined Total elapsed time, 8 hours, 30 minutes. What payment is due?
Answer:
A minimum day plus 30 minutes overtime.
Question 10:
A trainman operates a train from his home terminal, point A, to the away-from-home terminal, point B, a distance of 275 miles. After rest, he is
ordered to deadhead, separate and apart from service, to the home terminal, Time deadheading is 9 hours, 10 minutes. What payment is
due?
Answer
A minimum day plus 175 over-miles for service, 9 hours, 10 minutes straight time for the deadhead.
The following examples illustrate the application of the rules to employees whose earliest seniority date in a craft covered by this Agreement
is established after the date of this Agreement
Question 1:
A trainman is called to deadhead from his home terminal to an away-from-home point He last performed service 30 hours prior to
commencing the deadhead trip. The deadhead trip consumed 5 hours and was not combined with the service trip. The service trip out of the
away-from-home terminal began within 6 hours from the time the deadhead trip was completed. What payment is due?
Answer.
5 hours at the straight time rate.
Question 2:
What payment would have been made to the trainman in example 1 if the service trip out of the away-from-home terminal had begun 17 hours
after the time the deadhead trip ended, and the held-away rule was not applicable?
Answer.
A minimum day for the deadhead
Question 3:
What payment would have been made to the trainman in example 1 if the service trip out of the away-from-home terminal had begun 18 hours
after the time the deadhead trip ended, and the trainman received 2 hours pay under the held-away rule?
Answer.
6 hours at the straight time rate.
Question 4:
A trainman is deadheaded to the home terminal after having performed service into the away-from-home terminal. The deadhead trip, which
consumed 5 hours and was not combined with the service trip, commenced 8 hours after the service trip ended. What payment is due?
Answer.
5 hours at the straight time rate.
Question 5:
What payment would have been made to the trainman in example 4 if the deadhead trip had begun 18 hours after the service trip ended and
the held away rile was not applicable?
Answer.
A minimum day for the deadhead.
Question 6:
What payment would have been made to the trainman in example 4 if the deadhead trip had begun 18 hours after the time the service trip
ended and the trainman received 2 hours pay under the held away rule?
Answer.
6 hours at the straight time rate.
Question 7:
A trainman is deadheaded from the home terminal to an away-from-home location. Ten (10) hours after completion of the trip, he is
deadheaded to the home terminal without having performed service. The deadhead taps each consumed two hours. What payment is due?
Answer.
A minimum day for the combined deadhead trips.
NOTE: The amount of over-miles shown in the examples are on the basis of a 100 mile day. The number of over-miles will be reduced in
accordance with the application of Article IV Section 2, of this Agreement.
Section 4
Trainmen deadheading in exercising seniority privileges shall not be considered as deadheading under orders, except that the first trainmen
deadheading to take a newly created run or newly created assignment shall be paid in accordance with Section 1 of this article. For the
purpose of applying this article, exercising seniority privileges shall not be considered as applying to trainmen sent to opposite terminal, or to
outlying points, or vice versa to fill vacancies or to increase the extra list It will be understood that trainmen applying for vacancies of ten days
or more will be considered as exercising seniority.
NOTE: The changing of the reporting time of an assigned run does not constitute a newly created assignment, and men who are awarded
such runs shall not be entitled to payment for deadhead under the provisions of this article.
Section 5
When two crews are called at the same time, one to handle a train and one to deadhead, the crew first-out will deadhead. If deadheaded to
opposite terminal the deadhead crew on arrival at the terminal will be marked up ahead of the crew which handled the train. When two crews
are deadheading on the same train to opposite terminal and it is necessary to use one enroute, the crew standing last-out will be used,
allowing the crew first-out to complete the deadhead. If necessary enroute to use both crews for service in the deadheading direction, the
crew standing last-out shall get off for the first assignment, the crew first-out deadheading on to the second assignment If necessary to get off
for service in opposite direction to which deadheading, the crew first-out shall take the first assignment If the crews deadheading receive
assignment at the same point, the crew standing first-out shall take the first assignment When individual conductors or trainmen are
deadheaded, the same principles shall apply as outlined in this paragraph for complete crew.
NOTE: When a single train crew is deadheading on a train and circumstances require the use of a crew enroute, the crew deadheading shall
be used.
Section 6
When a pool place is to be deadheaded to the opposite terminal at the same time as the crew used in service and the crew is not to be used
until arrival of their pool place, train en will be called to deadhead on freight, being called for the same time as the crew that is to operate the
freight train, and if other means of transportation is used the deadheading trainmen shall take the same position on the board at the opposite
terminal as if they had used the freight train.
NOTE: This is not to prevent deadheading by other means with intent to use crew upon arrival.
Section 7
Trainmen deadheading from a division terminal will stand ahead of any trainmen deadheading on the same train from any intermediate point
between freight terminals or from any point beyond freight terminal.
Section 8
Sections 5, 6, and 7 of this Article will apply to conductors and trainmen deadheading from intermediate points in the same manner as
applied to crews deadheading from terminal to terminal.
Section 9
When exact conductors and/or trainmen are deadheaded to or from Lorain in connection with service at South Lorain, Ohio, they will be
allowed 45 minutes at the pro rata rate in addition to other compensation earned on that date. This allowance is to cover time and expense
that may be incurred in traveling between Lorain and South Lorain and shall be paid for each day on which said extra conductors and/or
trainmen are required to report at South Lorain. (Not applicable to employees with seniority subsequent to October 31,1985)
Section 10
When it is necessary for a Nickel Plate District conductor or a Nickel Plate District crew to be deadheaded from Bellevue to Lima to take a
position in the Lima-Bellevue pool, account crew being added to the pool, such conductor and/or crew will be marked up on arrival behind any
pool crews then at the terminal and ahead of the crew handling the train upon which deadheaded.
Section 11
Understanding, Cleveland, Ohio
A conductor or trainmen used on a turn-around basis, Bellevue to Cleveland and return, or Conneaut to Cleveland and return, where the end of
a deadhead trip and the start of a service trip, or the end of a service trip and the beginning of a deadhead, or where the end of a service trip
and the beginning of another service trip is not at the same point, will be transported between the points involved by taxicab or similar
conveyance at the expense of the railroad company, and the men in each instance will be notified at what point this service will be provided.
Article 25
Deadheading
Section 1
A Deadheading and service may be combined in any manner that traffic conditions require, and when so combined employees shall be paid
actual miles or hours on a continuous time basis, with no less than a minimum day, for the combined service and deadheading. However,
when deadheading from the away-from-home terminal to the home terminal is combined with a service tap from such home terminal to such
away-from-home terminal and the distance between the two terminals exceeds the applicable mileage for a basic day, the rate paid for the
basic day mileage portions of the service tap and deadhead shall be at the full basic daily rate.
B. Employees deadheading into their home terminal can have their deadhead combined with service out of that terminal only when the
deadhead and service comes within the provisions of short turnaround service rules.
Section 2
When deadheading is paid for separate and apart from service:
A For employees whose seniority date in a craft covered by this Agreement precedes November 1, 1985:
A minimum day, at the basic rate applicable to the class of service in connection with which deadheading is performed, shall be allowed for
the deadheading, unless actual time consumed is greater, in which event the latter amount shall be allowed.
B. For employees whose seniority date in a craft covered by this Agreement is established after November 1, 1985:
Compensation on a minute basis, at the basic rate applicable to the class of service in connection with which deadheading is performed,
shall be allowed. However, if service after deadheading to other than the employee's home terminal does not begin within 16 hours after
completion of deadhead, a minimum of a basic day at such rate will be paid. If deadheading from service at other than the employee's home
terminal does not commence within 16 hours of completion of service, a minimum of a basic day at such rate will be paid.
A minimum of a basic day also will be allowed where two separate deadhead trips, the second of which is out of other than the home terminal,
are made with on intervening service performed. Non-service payments such as held-away-from-home terminal allowance will count toward
the minimum of a basic day provided in this Section 2 B.
Section 3
Deadheading will not be paid where not paid under existing rules.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The following examples illustrate application of the rule to all employees regardless of when their seniority date in train or engine service was
established, except where specifically stated otherwise:
Question 1:
What payment would be due a trainman who performed road service on a train of 81 cars from A, the home terminal, to B, the
away-from-home terminal, a distance of 170 miles, and deadhead combined between A-B-A?
Answer.
A minimum day and 70 over-miles for the service and a minimum day and 70 over-miles for the deadhead, all at the 81-105 car rate, with
service and deadhead combined.
Question 2:
What would be the payment under Question 1 if the distance between A and B were 75 miles?
Answer.
A minimum day and 50 over-miles, all at the 81-105 car rate.
Question 3:
What payment would be due a trainman who performed road service on a train of 81 cars from A to B, a distance of 170 miles, taking rest at
B, and then being deadheaded separate and apart from service from B to A, with the deadhead consuming 8 hours?
Answer.
A minimum day and 70 over-miles, all at the 81-105 car rate for the service trip from A to B, and a minimum day at the basic rate ( no car
count) applicable to the class of service in connection with which the deadheading is performed.
Question 4:
What payment would be due a trainman who performed road service on a train of 81 cars from A to B, a distance of 170 miles, taking rest at
B, and then deadheading separately from service B to A, with the deadhead being completed in 10 hours?
Answer
He would be paid a minimum day and 70 over-miles, all at the 81-105 car rate for the service trip from A to B, and 10 hours straight time rate
of pay at the basic rate ( no car count) applicable to the class of service in connection with which the deadheading is performed.
Question 5:
A trainman operates a train from his home terminal, point A, to the away-from-home terminal, point B, a distance of 170 miles. Upon arrival at
the away-from-home terminal, he is ordered to deadhead separate and apart from service, to the home terminal. The time deadheading is 5
hours. What payment is due?
Answer.
A minimum day plus 70 over-miles for service. A minimum day for deadhead if employees' seniority antedates the date of this Agreement;
otherwise, 5 hours.
Question 6:
Would at least a minimum day at the basic rate (no car count) applicable to the class of service in connection with which the deadheading is
performed be paid when a deadhead is separate and apart from service and the actual time consumed is the equivalent of a minimum day or
less?
Answer.
Yes, for employees whose seniority antedates the date of the Agreement Actual time will be paid to others.
Question 7:
A trainman is called to deadhead from point A to point B, a distance of 50 miles, to operate a train back to point A He is instructed to
combine deadhead and service. Total elapsed time for the deadhead and service is 7 hours, 30 minutes. What payment is due?
Answer.
A minimum day.
Question 8:
A trainman is called to deadhead from point A to point B, a distance of 50 miles, to operate a train from point B to point C, a distance of 75
miles. He is instructed to combine deadhead and service. Total elapsed time is 10 hours. What payment is due?
Answer.
A minimum day plus 25 over-miles.
Question 9:
A trainman operates a train from point A to point B, a distance of 50 miles. He is ordered to deadhead back to point A, service and
deadhead combined Total elapsed time, 8 hours, 30 minutes. What payment is due?
Answer:
A minimum day plus 30 minutes overtime.
Question 10:
A trainman operates a train from his home terminal, point A, to the away-from-home terminal, point B, a distance of 275 miles. After rest, he is
ordered to deadhead, separate and apart from service, to the home terminal, Time deadheading is 9 hours, 10 minutes. What payment is
due?
Answer
A minimum day plus 175 over-miles for service, 9 hours, 10 minutes straight time for the deadhead.
The following examples illustrate the application of the rules to employees whose earliest seniority date in a craft covered by this Agreement
is established after the date of this Agreement
Question 1:
A trainman is called to deadhead from his home terminal to an away-from-home point He last performed service 30 hours prior to
commencing the deadhead trip. The deadhead trip consumed 5 hours and was not combined with the service trip. The service trip out of the
away-from-home terminal began within 6 hours from the time the deadhead trip was completed. What payment is due?
Answer.
5 hours at the straight time rate.
Question 2:
What payment would have been made to the trainman in example 1 if the service trip out of the away-from-home terminal had begun 17 hours
after the time the deadhead trip ended, and the held-away rule was not applicable?
Answer.
A minimum day for the deadhead
Question 3:
What payment would have been made to the trainman in example 1 if the service trip out of the away-from-home terminal had begun 18 hours
after the time the deadhead trip ended, and the trainman received 2 hours pay under the held-away rule?
Answer.
6 hours at the straight time rate.
Question 4:
A trainman is deadheaded to the home terminal after having performed service into the away-from-home terminal. The deadhead trip, which
consumed 5 hours and was not combined with the service trip, commenced 8 hours after the service trip ended. What payment is due?
Answer.
5 hours at the straight time rate.
Question 5:
What payment would have been made to the trainman in example 4 if the deadhead trip had begun 18 hours after the service trip ended and
the held away rile was not applicable?
Answer.
A minimum day for the deadhead.
Question 6:
What payment would have been made to the trainman in example 4 if the deadhead trip had begun 18 hours after the time the service trip
ended and the trainman received 2 hours pay under the held away rule?
Answer.
6 hours at the straight time rate.
Question 7:
A trainman is deadheaded from the home terminal to an away-from-home location. Ten (10) hours after completion of the trip, he is
deadheaded to the home terminal without having performed service. The deadhead taps each consumed two hours. What payment is due?
Answer.
A minimum day for the combined deadhead trips.
NOTE: The amount of over-miles shown in the examples are on the basis of a 100 mile day. The number of over-miles will be reduced in
accordance with the application of Article IV Section 2, of this Agreement.
Section 4
Trainmen deadheading in exercising seniority privileges shall not be considered as deadheading under orders, except that the first trainmen
deadheading to take a newly created run or newly created assignment shall be paid in accordance with Section 1 of this article. For the
purpose of applying this article, exercising seniority privileges shall not be considered as applying to trainmen sent to opposite terminal, or to
outlying points, or vice versa to fill vacancies or to increase the extra list It will be understood that trainmen applying for vacancies of ten days
or more will be considered as exercising seniority.
NOTE: The changing of the reporting time of an assigned run does not constitute a newly created assignment, and men who are awarded
such runs shall not be entitled to payment for deadhead under the provisions of this article.
Section 5
When two crews are called at the same time, one to handle a train and one to deadhead, the crew first-out will deadhead. If deadheaded to
opposite terminal the deadhead crew on arrival at the terminal will be marked up ahead of the crew which handled the train. When two crews
are deadheading on the same train to opposite terminal and it is necessary to use one enroute, the crew standing last-out will be used,
allowing the crew first-out to complete the deadhead. If necessary enroute to use both crews for service in the deadheading direction, the
crew standing last-out shall get off for the first assignment, the crew first-out deadheading on to the second assignment If necessary to get off
for service in opposite direction to which deadheading, the crew first-out shall take the first assignment If the crews deadheading receive
assignment at the same point, the crew standing first-out shall take the first assignment When individual conductors or trainmen are
deadheaded, the same principles shall apply as outlined in this paragraph for complete crew.
NOTE: When a single train crew is deadheading on a train and circumstances require the use of a crew enroute, the crew deadheading shall
be used.
Section 6
When a pool place is to be deadheaded to the opposite terminal at the same time as the crew used in service and the crew is not to be used
until arrival of their pool place, train en will be called to deadhead on freight, being called for the same time as the crew that is to operate the
freight train, and if other means of transportation is used the deadheading trainmen shall take the same position on the board at the opposite
terminal as if they had used the freight train.
NOTE: This is not to prevent deadheading by other means with intent to use crew upon arrival.
Section 7
Trainmen deadheading from a division terminal will stand ahead of any trainmen deadheading on the same train from any intermediate point
between freight terminals or from any point beyond freight terminal.
Section 8
Sections 5, 6, and 7 of this Article will apply to conductors and trainmen deadheading from intermediate points in the same manner as
applied to crews deadheading from terminal to terminal.
Section 9
When exact conductors and/or trainmen are deadheaded to or from Lorain in connection with service at South Lorain, Ohio, they will be
allowed 45 minutes at the pro rata rate in addition to other compensation earned on that date. This allowance is to cover time and expense
that may be incurred in traveling between Lorain and South Lorain and shall be paid for each day on which said extra conductors and/or
trainmen are required to report at South Lorain. (Not applicable to employees with seniority subsequent to October 31,1985)
Section 10
When it is necessary for a Nickel Plate District conductor or a Nickel Plate District crew to be deadheaded from Bellevue to Lima to take a
position in the Lima-Bellevue pool, account crew being added to the pool, such conductor and/or crew will be marked up on arrival behind any
pool crews then at the terminal and ahead of the crew handling the train upon which deadheaded.
Section 11
Understanding, Cleveland, Ohio
A conductor or trainmen used on a turn-around basis, Bellevue to Cleveland and return, or Conneaut to Cleveland and return, where the end of
a deadhead trip and the start of a service trip, or the end of a service trip and the beginning of a deadhead, or where the end of a service trip
and the beginning of another service trip is not at the same point, will be transported between the points involved by taxicab or similar
conveyance at the expense of the railroad company, and the men in each instance will be notified at what point this service will be provided.
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