Passenger Service

 

RULE 20. EXTRA PASSENGER SERVICE. (a) For extra passenger

service originating at the home terminal of pool freight

crews the senior available assigned freight engineer shall be

used. Upon reaching the away–from-home terminal for pool

freight engineers, such engineer shall be returned to the

home terminal in extra passenger service, doubleheader service,

operating a light engine, deadheading, or combinations

thereof. He may also be used out of the away-from-home terminal

in pool freight service in accordance with the first-in,

first-out regulations applicable to pool freight engineers,

provided such use will avoid a light engine movement or deadhead

movement to such terminal.

 

(b) Extra passenger service originating at the away-from-

home terminal for pool freight engineers may be protected

by any of the following:

 

1. By available engineers used into such terminal

in extra passenger service.

 

2. By engineers dispatched to such terminal on

light locomotive or deadhead for extra

passenger service.

 

3. By the first-out pool freight crew.

(c) Vacancies in positions of engineer in regularly assigned

passenger service operating out of main line district

terminals shall be filled as follows:

 

(1) The first trip after the vacancy occurs shall

be handled by the senior available assigned

freight engineer at that terminal.

 

(2) After the first trip the vacancy shall be

filled thereafter by the senior assigned en-gineer

at that terminal who files written

application therefor with the crew dispatcher

at least three hours in advance of the scheduled departure time.

 

(3) Where no written applications are made as provided

in Subsection (2) the vacancy shall then

be filled in the manner set forth in Subsection(l).

 

(d) Vacancies in positions of engineer in regularly assigned

passenger service at outlying points shall be filled

as follows:

 

(1) By the senior assigned freight engineer at such

terminal making written application therefor.

 

(2) lf no applications received as provided in Subsection

(1), by an extra engineer in the manner set forth in Rule 40.

 

(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections (c) and

(d) vacancies in regularly assigned passenger service may

after the vacancy has existed for six days be taken by any

engineer having greater seniority than the employe holding

the vacancy who has filed written application with the crew

dispatcher or other designated officer prior to expiration

of such sixth day, except that when the vacancy occurs’ in a

position that is part of a pool, one engineer in that pool

shall not be permitted to take a vacant position in that same

pool .

 

(f) Engineers may be relieved from doing extra

passenger work for a period of ninety (90) days by making

a written application to and obtaining permission from

the Division Superintendent.

RULE 23. ELIGIBILITY. An engineer shall be considered

eligible for passenger service after having performed

service as engineer equivalent to two-hundred (200) basic

days in miles or hours paid for.

 
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