Rule 32. Switching By Road Crews

  1. Road crews will not be required to perform switching at terminals where yard crews are on duty.
    The following will not be considered switching within the meaning of this section:

    • Doubling over when no track of sufficient length is available in the portion of the yard where the train is ordinarily made up or received.
    • Setting out B.O. cars found in train after engine is coupled.Road crews required to set out B.O. cars at initial terminal where yard crews are on duty will be allowed a one-hour arbitrary at the through freight rate.
    • Coupling train together to close cuts occasioned by necessity of protecting road crossings.
    • Cutting train to permit yard crew to take off or put on cars after leaving the track on which train was assembled or before reaching designated arrival track (limited to one cut).
    • Cruise on mixed trains picking up or setting out freight or passenger equipment (limited to one set out or pickup).
    • Intermediate yards — picking up cars from one track and/or setting out cars on one track, or on and from additional tracks where such tracks are not of sufficient length.
    • Road crews handling caboose for convenience only at Topeka, Kansas.
    • Road crews may make one set out of stock at Sidney, Laramie, and Denver.
    • Ellis, Kansas — road crews may double merchandise to Track No. 3 when yard crew is not on duty.
    • Sterling, Colorado — inbound road crews may make one set out and outbound crews may make one pickup when yard crew is not on duty.
    • Grand Island, Nebraska — road crews may set out sugar beets at West Stock Yards.
    • Omaha, Nebraska — inbound road crews setting out cars at Summit or 20th Street and Sixth Street Yard.
  2. Initial terminal switching where yard crews are employed but not on duty.Road crews may perform necessary switching in making up their own train, including assembling cars to be moved forward and spotting important loads requiring attention before yard crew comes on duty.
  3. Final terminal switching where yard crews are employed but not on duty. Road crews may spot rush cars from their own train, deliver rice cars to connecting lines, and spot important loads requiring attention before yard engine comes on duty.
  4. Road crews may place caboose on caboose track or in their training yards where yard crews are not on duty.
  5. Road crews performing switching en route where yard crews are employed but not on duty.Road crews may pick up or set out cars from their train, spot important loads,and switch out cars that moved forward in their train.
  6. In yards were continuous yard service is not maintained, yard crews assigned will perform all the service that is available or would become available within 30 minutes from the assigned off-duty time for the yard crew, regardless of the fact that such handling may cause the yard crew to work overtime. Yard crews will be required to complete work of making up trains consisting of cars which are in the terminal and available for assembling an expiration of shift.

    Overtime work in such instances will not be considered as a violation of section (b) Rule 3.

  7. When total switching time by road crews and overtime yard crews equals four hours or more for three consecutive working days, yard crews shall thereafter perform such service. Actual switching time must be shown on the time slip.
  8. No payments will accrue to yardmen for road crews performing service as provided in Rules 9, spaces 32 and 33 of the Trainmen’s Schedule. If road crews perform yard switching beyond those provisions,the first-out extra yard crew will be allowed a minimum day at yard rates.

NOTE: The provisions of Rule 32 as quoted above do not reflect the amendments thereto contained in Article V of the National Agreement of June 25, 1964 and Article IX of the National Agreement of January 27, 1972.