FUELING AT CSXT FRONTIER

I discussed with the International the recently initiated practice of having road crews take power to and/or from Frontier for the purpose of fueling. They believe we have a sound basis for claim in many circumstances.

CLAIM IS VALID IF:

You deliver your train to a location on NS property and then deliver your power to Frontier. You are not in interchange service and cannot be required to deliver your power to a foreign railroad without penalty. Submit a PE claim stating the following in the remarks.

“Allow one day’s pay account ordered by Bison Yardmaster Laura to deliver our engine consist to the Frontier Diesel Pad on the CSXT Railroad. We were not in interchange service and this is outside of the scope of Incidental work that may be required of us.”

If you deliver power to Frontier and bring it back, write:

“Allow one day’s pay account ordered by Bison Yardmaster Cherrie to deliver our engine consist to the Frontier Diesel Pad on the CSXT Railroad. We were then required to wait for the engines to be serviced and then returned them to Tiftt Street Yard for outbound train #15M. We were not in interchange service and this is outside of the scope of Incidental work that may be required of us.”

If you deliver your train to Frontier, you may deliver the power to the (1) Frontier engine tracks (i.e. the Diesel Pad or Loop Tracks), (2) the tracks immediately adjacent to the track you yarded on, or (3) back to NS (but not after fueling. If required to place your power on an outbound train at Frontier or bring it back to Bison after fueling, submit a penalty:

“Allow one day’s pay account required to place our engine consist on an outbound train at CSXT’s Frontier Yard after interchanging cars to CSXT on South Yard Track #6. After delivering our train we were ordered by the CSXT Hump Yardmaster to place our power on an outbound train on North Yard Track #5. This is beyond the scope of Incidental Work that may be required of us.”

or,

“Allow one day’s pay account required to take our engine consist from CSXT’s Frontier Diesel facility back to Bison Yard after interchanging our train to CSXT at Frontier Yard and delivering the power to the CSXT engine facility. The move back to Bison was for the purpose of delivering this power to an outbound train #309. This done per orders of NS Trainmaster Brian Bell.”

If you run into any other variables of this theme, please let me know and I will help you construct language for your claim. As with all claims, you should print a copy of the claim and the remarks and forward both to me as soon as you receive a denial. I would need the denial language as well either from the CrewCall system or from the “Detail of Earnings and Declinations” mailed to you by NS.

If any of you find yourself in interchange service to either CSXT, the D&H or the B&P and are required to make “extracurricular” moves, let me know. Even though we are all in “road service” in Buffalo, the agreements on interchange service are far more restrictive and penalty pay accrues far more often.