Dana E. Eischen, Referee i

                            ( (Pacific Lines)


              STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of the Brotherhood

            of Railroad Signalmen on the Southern Pacific Transportation Company that:


            (a) The Southern Pacific Transportation Company violated the Agreement between the company and the employes of the Signal Department represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen effective April 1, 1947 (reprinted April 1, 1958 including revisions), particularly the Scope Rule and Rule 70.


                    _(b) Claimant /Signalman D. Bohling, System Signal Shop,

            Sacramento/ be compensated in the amount of two and one-half (2 1/2)

            hours at Assistant Signal Supervisor's rate of pay for each of the fol

            lowing violations of the Scope Rule: February 9, 1972, February 10, 1972

            and February 11, 1972. _ _

            /Carrier's File: SIG 152-297/


            OPINION OF BOARD: The facts out of which the instant claim arose are

            not in dispute. On the claim dates here involved,

            February 9, 10, and 11, 1972 Carrier's Assistant Superintendent moved

            some materials from his company owned truck into the System Signal Shop

            at Sacramento, California.


            Subsequently on February 16, 1972 claimant herein filed this claim alleging violations of the Agreement between Carrier and the employes of the Signal Department that Carrier violated the Scope Rule and Rule 70, reading as follows;


                                "SCOPE


                    "(a) This agreement shall apply to work or service performed by the employes specified herein in the Signal Department, and governs the rates of pay, hours of service and working conditions of all employes covered by Article 1, engaged in the construction, reconstruction, installation, maintenance, testing, inspecting and repair of wayside signals, pole line signal circuits and their appurtenances, interlocking, spring switch locking


`;fit.
                  Award Number 20463 Page 2

                  Docket Number SG-20265


        "devices, highway crossing protection devices and their appurtenances, wayside train stop and train control equipment, detector devices connected with signal systems, including centralized traffic control systems, car retarder systems and hot box detectors and car counting devices when used in connection therewith, dragging equipment detector devices, electric switch lamp other work generally recognized as signal work performed in the field or signal shops.


        "(b) When signal circuits are handled on radio, radar or microwave systems, the employes covered by this agreement shall install and maintain the signal circuits leading up to a common terminal where signal circuits are interconnected with other circuits and will take off at a common terminal where Signal Department circuits are again separated from other c


        "(c) It is understood the following classifications shall include the employes performing the work enumerated under the heading of 'Scope."'


        "Rule 70. LOSS OF EARNINGS. An employe covered by this agrement who suffers loss of earnings because of violation or misapplication of any portion of this agreement shall be reimbursed for such loss."


We have analyzed carefully the Agreement language and the record herein. From the record before us we cannot determine that the work in dispute was a part of any of the phases of signal work embraced by the Scope Rule. Accordingly, we must dismiss the claim.

        FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:


        That the parties waived oral hearing;


That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

 That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; an
        That the claim should be dismissed.

                  Award Number 20463 Page 3

                  Docket Number SG-20265

                  A W A R D


        Claim dismissed.


                      NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                      By Order of Third Division


ATTEST:
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 25th day of October 1974.