PARTIES TO DISPUTE:


STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

















OPINION OF BOARD: This Board finds the reasoning and findings set forth
in Award No. 25712 are applicable to the facts of this
dispute. For these reasons, we affirm that this Claim was not handled in the
usual manner as provided in the controlling Agreement and, accordingly, did
not comply with Section 3, First (i) of the Railway Labor Act or Circular No.
1 of the National Railroad Adjustment Board.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the parties
to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon the whole
record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

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



That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

        That the Claim is barred.


                          AWARD


        Claim dismissed.


                          NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


Attest:
        Nancy/Dever - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, (/ Illinois, this 27th day of November 1985.