Charlotte Gold, Referee


              (Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes

PARTIES 7b DISPUTE:
              (St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company


STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:

 1. The Carrier violated the Agreement when it failed to maintain the required ratio of No. 2 Bridgemen in the Bridge and Building Gangs and thereby denied Mr. J. D. Jackson an opportunity to exercise his seniority in the No. 2 Bridgenan's class (System File MW-83-39-CB/53-679).

 2. As a consequence of the aforesaid violation, Claimant J. D. Jackson shall be compensated for 1983 and continuing until the violation is corrected and he shall be reimbursed in the amount of 522
OPINION OF BOARD: On November 15, 1983, Claimant filed a Claim for wages lost
 because of Carrier's alleged violation of Article 16, Sec
 tion 22, of the Parties' Agreement. In the course of handling on the proper
 ty, the organization maintained that this violation came about as the result
 of Carrier's abolishing all No. 2 Bridgemen positions in the B&B Department.

 In reviewing this Claim, however, we find the record on the property to be barren of any evidence of a probative nature to support Claimant's case. It is a basic tenet of the Railway Labor Act that all evidence to support a Claim must be advanced by the Parties on the property prior to progressing the Claim to the National Railroad Adjustment Board. That was not done in this instance and the Claim must consequently be denied.

        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 not violated.

                      Award Number 26228 Page 2

                      Docket Number MW-26193

                      A W A R D


        Claim denied.


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                            By order of Third Division


Attest:

      Nancy J. Dever - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th day of January 1987.