Whereas it is agreed upon by both parties that fatigue may be a safety factor in safe operations of trains, and the issue of rest days needs to be addressed, the following is agreed upon:

An assigned pool (301), with a minimum of two turns will be established at Vancouver WA working between Vancouver and Albany OR. Miles will be regulated under the 600 rules by the Organization.

This assigned freight service pool is to be initially set up with two pool turns, assigned under the 700 rules, with the senior assigned engineer taking the first turn. It is further understood that Albany Oregon remains an automatic release point and rule 11 of the SP&S agreement will remain in effect.

This OE pool will do all required dogcatching. It is understood that in the event a crew is required to dogcatch a train to Albany, and then required to return on another train, there will be a penalty of a basic day assessed for violation of the automatic release rule, rule 11 at Albany Oregon.

Line Miles for this pool will be set at 199 miles per trip. Deadhead miles will be included into the 199 miles for the run. Overtime will accrue after 12 hours.

This pool will work a 5/2 work/rest cycle with rest cycle days off of Sunday and Monday. Rest cycle will start at 0700, or tie up time, whichever is greater, and employees will be marked up at 0659, following their cycle rest days. Vacancies will be filled from the extra boards. Provisions of article 2 will apply to those filled vacancies.

An engineer on this work/rest pool will be automatically laid off from this pool during his/her assigned rest cycle, and automatically marked up upon expiration of his/her rest cycle. Employees beginning their work cycle will be available to be called for assignments that begin on or after the 0700 a.m. work cycle time. The latest on duty time will be one minute before the ends of the employees' work cycle.

Engineers may return to service before the expiration of the rest cycle at any time with 12 hours prior notification to Crew Support. An engineer who desires to continue working through all or part of his/her rest cycle must notify the crew desk of this desire to work through the rest cycle not less than 12 hours in advance of the scheduled start time of the rest cycle. An engineer who chooses to remain marked up must be available to be called to work during the time specified in his/her request.

Engineers who lay off completely within the assigned rest cycle will not be considered in violation of any attendance guidelines, regardless of the number of weekend or total days absent. Lay offs taken during the work cycle will fall under any attendance guidelines. It is understood that the days available for lay off outside the rest cycle will be based on the total days available for the month.

All other rules remain in effect except where modified here within.

This agreement shall become effective on _______________________ and remain in effect until cancelled upon 10 days written notice from either party to the other.

Dated this _________day of ___________2001, at Vancouver WA.

I concur: