Side Letter Agreement

Article II, Section l(b) Crew Consist Agreement

Car Limit Exception. Trains of seventy-two to one hundred twenty-one cars and not exceeding 6,840 feet in length, including caboose(s), such as unit trains (empties in connection with unit trains), piggyback, grain, coal, ore, gravel, mail trains, and through freight (combination commodity) trains operated from'terminal to terminal intact without picking up, or setting out (except bad order cars from their own train), or doing switching enroute,.may be operated with one conductor and one brakeman. However, a reduced crew of one conductor and one brakeman will not be used on such trains when protected employes are available at the location of the protecting extra boards or when a protected employe has exercised seniority to the blankable (blanked) second brakeman position on the crew handling such trains.

NOTE: Any such trains required to pick up, set out (.except bad order cars from their own train), or perform switching enroute will entitle the second brakeman who stood for the work payment of all time lost had such brakeman worked the second brakeman position in addition to all other earnings. Also, the conductor and brakeman on such train would be paid the special allowance and the Productivity Fund would be credited.

Q. Does this restriction also apply within the initial or final terminal? 

A. No, this will not affect the rights granted the Carrier under Article IX of the January 27, 1972 National Agreement, as amended.

Effective this 15th day of November, 1980