(Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
 PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
 (Soo Line Railroad Company

On behalf of Mr. G. L. Otterson, for expenses from December 20 through December 23, 1982, $51.65, incurred while working away from his headquarters. [Carrier file: 900-19-69]"

 OPINION OF BOARD: Claimant is a Signalman headquartered at Neenah, Wisconsin,
 who was assigned to relieve the Signal Maintainer at
 Waupaca, Wisconsin from December 20 through 23, 1982. He subsequently
 submitted an automobile mileage expense account for thirty-five miles from
 Neenah to Waupaca on December 20, 1982, and thirty-five miles from Waupaca to
 Neenah on December 23, 1982, as well as for meals. The meal claim was for
 lunch and dinner on December 20, 1982, three meals on December 21 and 22,
 1982, and for breakfast and lunch on December 23, 1982. A specific sum was
 shown for each meal.

 The Carrier rejected the claim stating Claimant "stayed at his home near Waupaca each evening and took his supper and breakfast at home" and offered to pay the claim if resubmitted with the breakfast and dinner charges deleted.

 Rules 24 and 26 deal with hourly rated employes sent from their home stations. Rule 24 applies to situations where the employe does not return to the home station on the same day while Rule 26 applies to both one day and longer assignments. The Rules provide in pertinent part:



The Organization relies on these Rules and has not denied Carrier's contention that Claimant ate breakfast and dinner at home each day and used a Company truck to and from work while relieving at Waupaca.

 Third Division Awards have held the terms "actual expenses" requires a Claimant be reimbursed for out of pocket expenditures only and not for "some arbitrary figure to which he thinks he is entitled". (17536, 12120, 10923) We conclude these principles apply here. The claim is denied to the extent that it seeks more than reimbursement for the noon meal and mileage on the days in question.
                        Docket Number SG-25520


        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 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 Agreement was violated.


                        A W A R D


        Claim sustained in accordance with the Opinion.


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


        Attest* Nancy X'-poer - Executive Secretary


        Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 25th day of April 1986.


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