RULE 19. CONVERSION TO THROUGH FREIGHT OR LOCAL RATES. (a) When handling freight cars not equipped for passenger service, or when handling freight traffic, engineers in passenger service will be allowed the through freight rate of pay for the trip, but passenger rules shall apply for initial and final terminal time.
(b) Through freight rates will be paid to the engineer of a passenger train on which company shipments are handled as set forth below:
1. DC&H. Freight rates will be paid for DC&H material or supplies (except fresh milk, cream, ice cream and fish), to commissaries, restaurants or employes on line, but will not be paid for supplies for the dining cars in the train, box lunches, DC&H linen.
2. Company Material. Freight rates will be paid for company material exceeding one-hundred (100) pounds in weight in the aggregate, provided that stationery, advertising and printed matter in excess of one-hundred (100) pounds in the aggregate, may be handled at passenger rates where the individual shipments for any station between the crew's terminal points do not exceed 25 pounds in weight.
3. Mail. Freight rates will not be paid for company mail, including pay rolls, vouchers, tariffs, tickets, meal and baggage checks, timetables, reports, documents, statements, blueprints, specimens for tests, samples and defective materials for inspection.
4. Washouts—Derailments. Freight rates will not be paid for the handling of company shipments or material of any kind, or in any volume, on passenger trains, for washouts, derailments or interruptions to telegraph or telephone communications from any point on the railroad direct to point of necessity in the territory within scope of this agreement.
5. Express. Freight rates will not be paid for any company material moving under express billing from off line points to on line points, or from on line points to off line points, or for company shipments of less than 100 pounds in weight in the aggregate between points on the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, nor for fresh milk, cream, ice cream and fish, regardless of weight.
6. Supplies. Freight rates will not be paid to crews of passenger trains for handling the following company shipments:
(a) Ice or water for employes.
(b) Tools and repair parts, not in excess of 100 pounds accompanying employes riding on passenger trains.
(c) Train signals or flagging equipment.
(d) Locomotive or Diesel parts carried on locomotives or Diesels for their own use.^e) Union Pacific Railroad Employes Hospital Association supplies.
(e) Fresh milk, cream, ice cream and fish for employes or the DC&H Department, shipped under either company or express billing.
(g) Clocks and watches for use of company or its employes.
7. Where through freight rates apply under this rule, and the total weight of shipments load-ed or unloaded between the crew's terminals amounts to 2500 pounds or more, the local freight rate shall be paid.
(c) A passenger engineer required to exchange locomotives with a helper engineer in circumstances where the helper engineer is not qualified to handle the passenger train shall be paid for the entire trip the through freight rate applicable to the heaviest locomotive used.