Rodney E. Dennis, Referee


              (Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes


PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
              (Consolidated Rail Corporation


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

 1. The Carrier violated the Agreement when it assigned junior Trackman W. L. Morgan to perform o instead of assigning and using Trackman W. C. Walker, who was senior, available and willing to perfo
2. Mr. W. C. Walker shall be allowed forty-five (45) hours of pay at the camp car attendant's time and one-half rare because of the violation referred to in Part (1) hereof."

 OPINION OF BOARD: The Claimant was senior to Trackman L. L. Morgan who was
 used to perform overtime service on August 22, 23, 24,
 1980. Morgan was used to watch camp cars over the long weekend. Morgan was
 asked to perform the service because he was one of the last qualified Trackmen
 still at the site when it became known that the regular Camp Car Attendant
 could not perform the service. The Organization contends that since Claimant
 was senior to Morgan, he should have been asked to perform the overtime ser
 vice. Carrier agrees with this position but asserts that Claimant had al
 ready left the camp cars for home when the need for a replacement attendant
 came up. Claimant contends that he was in the kitchen of the camp car waiting
 for his ride home and had not left the site.

 The Board has reviewed the record of this case and must conclude that Carrier erred in not attempting to seek out the most senior qualified Camp Attendant available at the site when Mr. Morgan was assigned as Camp Attendant. The Carrier has, as the most senior qualified available employe to perform the overtime work. We find nothing in the record to demonstrate that Carrier officials made an effort to seek out the most senior man, nor do we find any information in the record to support Carrier's contention that Claimant had left the property and was headed home. We therefore shall sustain 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;

                      Award Number 26427 Page 2

                      Docket Number MW-25993


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.


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


Attest:

      Nancy J. D er - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 24th day of August 1987.