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PB – 90154

MERGER IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENT
(Portland Hub)
Zones 2 and 3
between
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY
and
BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS

In Finance Docket No. 32760, the Surface Transportation Board approved the merger of the Union Pacific Corporation, Union Pacific Railroad Company/Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (hereinafter, collectively referred to as “Carrier” or “UP”) and Southern Pacific Rail Corporation, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, SPCSL Corp., and the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company (Hereinafter, collectively referred to as “SP”). In approving this transaction, the STB imposed New York Dock labor protective conditions.

Pursuant to New York Dock, and to achieve the public transportation benefits and operational changes made possible by this transaction, IT IS AGREED:

1. PORTLAND HUB ZONES 2 AND 3 New seniority districts shall be created that encompasses the following area: UP territory including milepost 182.79 west of Seattle, Washington, to Eastport, Idaho, on the Spokane International to milepost 390.0 at Silver Bow, Montana, to milepost (Pocatello sub) 191.80 at McCammon, Idaho, and to milepost (Pocatello sub) 0.64 at Granger, Wyoming; SP territory from (including) Chemult, Oregon to the Portland Terminal. The Hub shall be divided into three (3) zones as follows:
   1. Zone 1 will include operations Chemult north to Seattle and Portland east to (not including) Hinkle.

      NOTE: This Zone was covered by the Merger Implementing Agreement (Portland Hub) Zone 1 between the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers dated August 13, 1998.

   2. Zone 2 will include operations from, and including, Hinkle, Oregon, to, and including, Huntington, Oregon, and from Hinkle, Oregon, to and including Eastport, Idaho on the former Spokane International Railroad.

      NOTE: It is the parties’ intent herein to include those regular and extra board positions governed by the provisions of Article 11, Section B, Paragraphs 5.a. and 5.b. of the August 13, 1998 Merger implementing Agreement for Portland Hub Zone 1 into this new Zone 2.

   3. Zone 3 will include operations from, but not including, Huntington, Oregon, to milepost 390.0 at Silver Bow, Montana, to milepost 191.80 at McCammon, Idaho (Pocatello Subdivision) and to milepost 0,64 (Pocatello Subdivision) at Granger, Wyoming.

      NOTE: Zones 2 and 3 shall include all main, branch and/or secondary lines, yard trackage, industrial leads and all other trackage, leads and stations between the points identified.

   4. Any trackage or lines, either under lease or sale, that may be reacquired by UP will be included in the appropriate zone.