PARTIES ) Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
 TO THE ) and
 DISPUTE ) Transportation - Communication Employees Union

 QUESTIONS
 AT ISSUE: 1. What is the effective date of the Agreement dated
 February 7, 1965?
 2. Does an employee (extra or regularly assigned) who
 retains or obtains (by bidding or displacing) a
 regular position when such is available to him after
 Decumoer 24, 1965, retain protected status under the
 tar; of Article II, even though such employe may
 not have done so prior to December 24, 1965?
 3. Does the abolishment of positions, made possible
 through the discontinuance of certain trains, and/
 or reduction of business at certain stations, con
 stitute operational or organizational changes within
 the meaning of Article III?
 OPINION
 OF BOARD: The Board concludes, that, because of the unique facts
 and circumstances of this docket and without establishing a precedent on this
 or any other carrier that the Questions at Issue in this dispute are disposed
 of in the following manner:

 With respect to Question No. 2, all claims for compensation nLould be denied, but because of the unique circumstances the Board concludes that the protected status under the February 7, 1965 Agreement should be restored as of the date of this award to claimant B. N. Howard, the only claimant currently employed by the carrier, without any retroactive compensation.

                        -2- Case No. TCU-44-W


                As a result of the disposition of Question No. 2 the


Board concludes that it is unnecessary to Answer Questions Nos. 1 and 3.

                        AWARD


                The case is disposed of as per Opinion of the Board.

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Dated: ~`le-~.Xe·, /y, If ;7Z
      Washington, D. C.