Parties:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

FINDINGS:

SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT NO. 355

THE ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS
THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY

AWARD IN DOCKET N0. 46

AWARD N0. 46
CASE N0. 100
(BU-5798-33)





The question before us is this: did the conductor give the dispatcher the "consist" of his train when he told him by phone that his "train was in clear on that track at approximately 11:30 p.m., giving the number of cars he would have into Parkersburg and advising that he had cleared Hartford and Baden sidings"7

Carrier here contends this information "was of no use to the train dispatcher and he had not been instructed to call from the Kaiser Storage Track x x x."

In our Docket No. 44, on which we rendered a sustaining award, Carrier acknowledged the dispatcher called a yard clerk over the telephone x x`x*"and secured the consist x x." The information transmitted was "66 loads, 2677 tons. 4 Clarksburg, 150 tons. 62 loads, 2527 tons east."

We think the information here was consist information. It certainly was of use to the dispatcher, as Organization argument before this Board indicates, to know the number of cars he would have in order to determine the track on which the train would go to Parkersburg. It would also be made a matter of record.

This claim will be sustained.

/s/ B. N. Kinkead

B. N. Kinkead

Employee Member


Dated at Baltimore, Maryland, this 20th day of February, 1962.

A W A R D

Claim sustained.

/s/ Edward A. Lynch
Edward A. Lynch
Chairman

/s/ T. S. Woods
T. S. Woods
Carrier Member