Parties Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
 to and
 Dispute Southern Pacific Transportation Company
 -Texas and Louisiana Lines
 Statement 1. Carrier violated the effective Agreement by unfairly and without just
 of cause, declined to reimburse Claimant Albert Solomon his actual necessary
 Claim: expenses while away from his headquarters, Houston, Texas.

          2. Claimant Solomon shall be paid amount for expense incurred from January 20, 1976, to February 20, 1976 and expenses from February 20, 1976 through February 24, 1976.


Findings: The Board finds, after hearing upon the whole record and all evidence,
 that the parties herein are Carrier and Employee within the meaning of the
 Railway Labor Act, as amended, that this Board is duly constituted by
 Agreement dated March 23, 1977, that it has jurisdiction of the parties
 and the subject matter, and that the parties were given due notice of
 the hearing held.
 Claimant, a System Machine Operator, on the Lafayette Division here seeks
 the monetary difference between what he originally claimed for expenses
 at Woodville and Kountze, while away from his Houston headquarters, on
 Saturdays and Sundays, filed on his separate expense accounts for continuous
 expenses, January 21, 1976 to February 24, 1976, and what he was actually
 allowed. Said difference amounts to $196.95.
 There is no difference between the parties that under Article 16, an
 employee covered thereunder is entitled to reasonable expenses. Claimant,
 however, was not so held, and absent some permissive arrangement to the
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          expenses he was not entitled as claimed.


          In the particular circumstances involved this claim will be denied.


Award: Claim denied.

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          A. ningha E loyee Member R. W. 'ckman, Carrier Member


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                            rthur T. Van Wart, Chairman and Neutral Member


                  Issued at Houston, Texas, May 8, 1978.