(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes

PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
                  (CSX Transportation, Inc.


STATEMENT OF CLAlbl: .1s shown in Docket No. MW-32618 and not
 repeated herein.

 Fj DIN S: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board finds:

 That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment Board ex parte by the petitioning party; and

 Under date of February 3, 1997, the petitioning party addressed a formal communication to the Arbitration Assistant requesting withdrawal of this case from further consideration by the Division which request is hereby granted.

                        AWARD


      Claim withdrawn.


                      NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                      By Order of Third Division


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of March 1997.