PARTIES Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
 _TO
 DISPUTE: and
 Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
 STATEMENT 1. Demotion of Track Repairman W. B. Neville
 OF
 CLAIM: from Rank 1 to Rank 3was without just cause
 and on the basis of unproven charges.
 2. Claimant's seniority in Rank 1 shall be
 restored unimpaired and he shall be reimbursed
 for any and all monetary loss suffered from
 the date of demotion to the date his seniority
 in Rank 1 is restored.
 FINDINGS: After a hearing had been held in the matter,
 claimant was demoted from Track Foreman to Rank 3
 for leaving track that he worked on in an unsafe
 condition. No reversible procedural error is
 found in the record.
 On the night in question, claimant had been in-

 sLructed to have his gang install switch ties in the south end
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 of the shop track switch at Radnor Yard in Nashville.
 A derailment occurred after the gang had left work. According to Foreman Anderson and Assistant Roadmaster Phillips, their investigation established that it resulted from tight gage which caused equipment as light as a caboose to be derailed. From their testimony, it appears that the rail on the new ties had been spiked too tight.
 No justification is perceived for disturbing Carrier's findings or disciplinary action, particularly in view of the expertise of the above named witnesses and its responsibility for operating the railroad in a safe and efficient manner.

 AWARD: Claim denied. -



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