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Article 31
Switching Limits
Section 1
Existing agreements are amended to read as follows:
The employees involved, and the carriers represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee, being desirous of cooperating in
order to meet conditions on the various properties to the end that efficient and adequate switching service may be provided and industrial
development facilitated, adopt the following:
A Except as provided in Section 1(b) hereof, where an individual carrier not now having the right to change existing switching limits where
yard crews are employed, considers it advisable to change the same, it shall give notice in writing to the General Chairman or General
Chairmen of such intention, whereupon the carrier and the General Chairman or General Chairmen shall, within 30 days, endeavor to
negotiate an understanding.
In the event the carrier and the General Chairman or General Chairmen cannot agree on the matter, the dispute shall be submitted to
arbitration as provided for in the Railway Labor Act, as amended, within 60 days following date of last conference. The decision of the
Arbitration Board will be made within 30 days thereafter. The award of the Board shall be final and binding on the parties and shall become
effective thereafter upon seven days notice by the carrier.
B. Where, after the effective dates of the 1951 and 1952 Agreements, an industry locates outside of switching limits at points where yard
crews are employed, the carrier may provide switching service to such industries with yardmen without additional compensation or penalties
therefore to yard or road men, provided the switches governing movements from the main track to the track or tracks serving such industries
are located at a point not to exceed four miles from the switching limits in effect as of the date of January 27, 1972. Other industries located
between such switching limits and such new industries may also be served by yardmen without additional compensation or penalties
therefore to road or yard men. Where rules require that yard limits and switching limits be the same, the yard limit board may be moved for
operating purposes but switching limits shall remain unchanged unless and until changed in accordance with rules governing changes in
switching limits.
The yard conductor (foreman) or yard conductors (foremen) involved shall keep account of and report to the carrier daily on form provided
the actual time consumed by the yard crew or crews outside of the switching limits in serving the industry in accordance with this Section 1B
and a statement of such time shall be furnished the General Chairman or General Chairmen representing yard and road crews by the carrier
each month. Unless some other plan for equalization of time is agreed to by the General Chairman or General Chairmen representing yard
and road crews, the carrier shall periodically advertise to road service employees the opportunity to work in yard service, under yard rules
and conditions, on assignments as may be mutually agreed upon by the local representatives of the employees involved, for a period of time
sufficient to offset the time so consumed by yard crews outside the switching limits. In the event such local representatives fail to agree, the
carrier will designate such assignments but shall not be subject to penalty claims because of doing so. Such equalization of time shall be
apportioned among employees holding seniority as road conductors or road brakemen in the same ratio as the accumulated hours of yard
conductors (foremen) and yard brakemen (helpers). In the event no road employee elects to bid on the accumulated equalizing hours within
the bulletined period such accumulation of equalizing hours will be considered forfeited and a new accumulating period shall commence.
C. This Article shall in no way affect the changing of yard or switching limits at points where no yard crews are employed.
D. The foregoing is not intended to amend or change existing agreements involving predominantly full-time switching service performed
solely by road crews at industrial parks located within the 4-mile limit referred to in Section 1 B hereof that have been negotiated on
individual properties since the National Agreements of 1951 and 1952.
E. Current switching limits are as follows:
1. Bellevue-Sandusky Terminal
The switching limits at Bellevue Sandusky Terminal are
EAST - NKP MP 240.5
WEST-NKP MP 251.35
EAST-PRR MP 93
WEST-PRR MP 1.09
EAST-WLE MP 54.75
WEST-WLE MP 50.70
NOTE: Work train service shall be applied as if the east switching limits or yard limits at Bellevue on the Lake Division were still located at
Mile Post 243.64.
2. Buffalo Terminal
WEST-NKP 819 feet south of MP 8
WEST-NKP MP 385.5
3. Chicago Terminal
EAST-NKP 421 feet west of MP 504 (Chicago District)
WEST-NKP MP C40.9 (Forrest District)
4. Cleveland Terminal
EAST-NKP 4826 feet west of MP 168
WEST-NKP 2352 feet west of MP 195
5. Conneaut Terminal
EAST 820 feet east of MP 115
WEST 2267 feet east of MP 119
6. Detroit Terminal
WEST - WAB MP 10 (DET)
7. Ft. Wayne Terminal
EAST - NKP (“F”) MP 359.5
SOUTH - NKP (MUN) MP CF179
WEST - NKP (CGO) MP B377.4
EAST - WAB (MONT) MP 139
EAST - WAB (TOL) MP 87
WEST - WAB (STL) 1025 feet west of MP 150 (DET)
8. Lafayette Terminal
WEST 2000 feet west of mp 259 (DET)
EAST 1500 feet east of MP 249.3 (DET)
9. Muncie Terminal
EAST 478 feet east MP 171 (Sandusky District)
WEST 4274 feet west MP 176 (Sandusky District)
SOUTH 478 feet north MP 120 (New Castle District)
NORTH 1106 feet north MP 125 (New Castle District)
10. St Louis Terminal
Southern
St Louis District MP 7 + 3814 feet
NW
Brooklyn District MP D469.1
Madison District MP 445 + 2045 feet
"Luther" line STL District 4098 feet north MP 7 (STL)
11. Toledo Terminal
WEST -NKP (DEL) 5055 feet west Monclova Road TS13.1
EAST- WLE MP 8.01
WEST- WAB (MAU) MP 17
Article 31
Switching Limits
Section 1
Existing agreements are amended to read as follows:
The employees involved, and the carriers represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee, being desirous of cooperating in
order to meet conditions on the various properties to the end that efficient and adequate switching service may be provided and industrial
development facilitated, adopt the following:
A Except as provided in Section 1(b) hereof, where an individual carrier not now having the right to change existing switching limits where
yard crews are employed, considers it advisable to change the same, it shall give notice in writing to the General Chairman or General
Chairmen of such intention, whereupon the carrier and the General Chairman or General Chairmen shall, within 30 days, endeavor to
negotiate an understanding.
In the event the carrier and the General Chairman or General Chairmen cannot agree on the matter, the dispute shall be submitted to
arbitration as provided for in the Railway Labor Act, as amended, within 60 days following date of last conference. The decision of the
Arbitration Board will be made within 30 days thereafter. The award of the Board shall be final and binding on the parties and shall become
effective thereafter upon seven days notice by the carrier.
B. Where, after the effective dates of the 1951 and 1952 Agreements, an industry locates outside of switching limits at points where yard
crews are employed, the carrier may provide switching service to such industries with yardmen without additional compensation or penalties
therefore to yard or road men, provided the switches governing movements from the main track to the track or tracks serving such industries
are located at a point not to exceed four miles from the switching limits in effect as of the date of January 27, 1972. Other industries located
between such switching limits and such new industries may also be served by yardmen without additional compensation or penalties
therefore to road or yard men. Where rules require that yard limits and switching limits be the same, the yard limit board may be moved for
operating purposes but switching limits shall remain unchanged unless and until changed in accordance with rules governing changes in
switching limits.
The yard conductor (foreman) or yard conductors (foremen) involved shall keep account of and report to the carrier daily on form provided
the actual time consumed by the yard crew or crews outside of the switching limits in serving the industry in accordance with this Section 1B
and a statement of such time shall be furnished the General Chairman or General Chairmen representing yard and road crews by the carrier
each month. Unless some other plan for equalization of time is agreed to by the General Chairman or General Chairmen representing yard
and road crews, the carrier shall periodically advertise to road service employees the opportunity to work in yard service, under yard rules
and conditions, on assignments as may be mutually agreed upon by the local representatives of the employees involved, for a period of time
sufficient to offset the time so consumed by yard crews outside the switching limits. In the event such local representatives fail to agree, the
carrier will designate such assignments but shall not be subject to penalty claims because of doing so. Such equalization of time shall be
apportioned among employees holding seniority as road conductors or road brakemen in the same ratio as the accumulated hours of yard
conductors (foremen) and yard brakemen (helpers). In the event no road employee elects to bid on the accumulated equalizing hours within
the bulletined period such accumulation of equalizing hours will be considered forfeited and a new accumulating period shall commence.
C. This Article shall in no way affect the changing of yard or switching limits at points where no yard crews are employed.
D. The foregoing is not intended to amend or change existing agreements involving predominantly full-time switching service performed
solely by road crews at industrial parks located within the 4-mile limit referred to in Section 1 B hereof that have been negotiated on
individual properties since the National Agreements of 1951 and 1952.
E. Current switching limits are as follows:
1. Bellevue-Sandusky Terminal
The switching limits at Bellevue Sandusky Terminal are
EAST - NKP MP 240.5
WEST-NKP MP 251.35
EAST-PRR MP 93
WEST-PRR MP 1.09
EAST-WLE MP 54.75
WEST-WLE MP 50.70
NOTE: Work train service shall be applied as if the east switching limits or yard limits at Bellevue on the Lake Division were still located at
Mile Post 243.64.
2. Buffalo Terminal
WEST-NKP 819 feet south of MP 8
WEST-NKP MP 385.5
3. Chicago Terminal
EAST-NKP 421 feet west of MP 504 (Chicago District)
WEST-NKP MP C40.9 (Forrest District)
4. Cleveland Terminal
EAST-NKP 4826 feet west of MP 168
WEST-NKP 2352 feet west of MP 195
5. Conneaut Terminal
EAST 820 feet east of MP 115
WEST 2267 feet east of MP 119
6. Detroit Terminal
WEST - WAB MP 10 (DET)
7. Ft. Wayne Terminal
EAST - NKP (“F”) MP 359.5
SOUTH - NKP (MUN) MP CF179
WEST - NKP (CGO) MP B377.4
EAST - WAB (MONT) MP 139
EAST - WAB (TOL) MP 87
WEST - WAB (STL) 1025 feet west of MP 150 (DET)
8. Lafayette Terminal
WEST 2000 feet west of mp 259 (DET)
EAST 1500 feet east of MP 249.3 (DET)
9. Muncie Terminal
EAST 478 feet east MP 171 (Sandusky District)
WEST 4274 feet west MP 176 (Sandusky District)
SOUTH 478 feet north MP 120 (New Castle District)
NORTH 1106 feet north MP 125 (New Castle District)
10. St Louis Terminal
Southern
St Louis District MP 7 + 3814 feet
NW
Brooklyn District MP D469.1
Madison District MP 445 + 2045 feet
"Luther" line STL District 4098 feet north MP 7 (STL)
11. Toledo Terminal
WEST -NKP (DEL) 5055 feet west Monclova Road TS13.1
EAST- WLE MP 8.01
WEST- WAB (MAU) MP 17
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