"Claim of the System Committee of the Organization (GL-11804) that:

1) Claim in behalf of Spare Operators S. D. Willey for travel miles

Waterville to Portland ME, and return each day April 11 - 30, 1996.

2) Carrier violated Rules 11, 18, 29, 7.

3) Claim should be sustained as presented."

The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:

The carrier or carriers and the employee or employees involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employee within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934.

Parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.

On April 2, 1996, the Claimant's position as a Tower Operator at Waterville, Maine, was abolished. To avoid furlough, the Claimant traveled to Portland, Maine,

each day to train as a Tower Operator at Rigby Tower. The instant claim seeks reimbursement for mileage expense between Waterville and Portland.

Rules 29 and 7.6 provide for reimbursement of travel costs when employees are required to travel. The record developed on the property discloses that there is a factual dispute as to whether the Claimant was required to travel or whether he decided to do so on his own. This factual dispute was not resolved on the property and, as an appellate body, the Board is unable to resolve it. Accordingly, the claim must be dismissed.