General Business Meeting - 4/9/2013

The Mineral Range Railroad

A Brand New Upper Peninsula Railroad

Location: Dillman 214

Time: 6pm

Presenter: Clint Jones, President of Mineral Range Railroad

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All majors and community members welcome! Free pizza and pop as usual.

Please come and learn about this historic moment for the UP, and meet the man making it possible.

Hope to see you there!

Sign Up for 2013 Spring Trip to Escanaba!

Just in case you may have missed our emails, the sign up for the Escanaba trip is now available. Here's the trip itinerary:

We will be touring both E&LS and CN Rail facilities this weekend, Saturday, April 6th, in Escanaba. If you are interested please fill out the attached form and give a $20 deposit to Pam Hannon by noon on Friday (April 5) to reserve your spot. The deposit will be refunded when you arrive Saturday morning. If you have steel toe boots please bring them or PPE will be provided.

The current plan would be to leave from Houghton around 7 a.m. and be done with E&LS around 11:30 a.m. E&LS currently has many projects going on in their shop so there is a lot to see! Last time we visited CN, we brought some pizzas and ate lunch (CN folks are welcome to eat with us as well), while the supervisor talked a bit about their operations.

 After lunch we looked at the rotary dump, ore dock, car repair shop, visited locomotive cab and looked at some yard features. We should be on the road back around 2 p.m.

Need to know by Wednesday, April 2nd by 5pm (Today!).  But don't worry about turning in the deposit before then.  The deadline for the deposit is Thursday afternoon at 5pm. If you want to go just sign up on the spreadsheet and show up on Saturday.  This is a great opportunity to take a few hours and learn a lot about the railroad industry. Plus its FREE and includes lunch! It is hard to beat that!  As you can see you would be home by 6pm and still have plenty of time to enjoy the evening.  I hope to see you guys on the list!

Itinerary (subject to change):

Meet in Lot 24 (Football SDC Lot) - 7:00 a.m.
E & LS - 7:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Lunch TBD - 11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
CN Rail - 11:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Depart for Houghton - 2:00 p.m. If you have any questions let me know.


Sign Up Here!

Officer Elections!

Hello Everyone:

This is a very urgent email detailing the OFFICER ELECTIONS that are coming up on Tuesday, March 19 at 6pm in Dillman 204. As you may know, a few of the Senior officers (President, VP, and Treasurer/Secretary) will be graduating after this semester. If any of you are interested or know any nominees for the officer-ship roles be prepared for the next GBM. Other opening positions are Webmaster, Advertising, and Social Chair. We are the future leaders and engineers of the railroad industry, so the current officers encourage you all to run for a position to lead another successful academic year.

As always there will be FREE pizza and drinks at the meeting. Have a GREAT Spring Break and see you all on Tuesday!

Regards,

Antonio Passariello

8th Annual Railroad Night Is Here!

REAC's 8th Annual Railroad Night will be tonight from 7-9:30pm in the Shelden Grill (7th Floor Magnuson Hotel.) Come network with the representatives serving the US railroad industry and enjoy a a nice meal at the same time!

See you there!

Engineering Week - Mega Structures

 
The Railroad Engineering and Activities Club will be having an Engineering Week Event Monday  Febuary 18, at 7pm, in Dow 642. We will be showing the National Geographic movie "Mega Structures: Extreme Railway, Qinghai-Tibet.  It is a great movie that features Michigan Tech's very own Dr. Pasi Lautala!  In addition industry reps will be in attendance.  The event is free and open to everyone, so bring some friends!  Free pizza and pop will be provided!  The event poster poster is attached for more details.  Hope to see everyone there!

EDIT: The video is now posted. Enjoy!

CN Donates $500,000 to Rail Transportation Program

Michigan Tech's Railroad Engineering and Activities Club (REAC) is pleased to announce CN's extremely generous donation of $500,000 to the Rail Transportation Program (RTP.)

CN is a leading Class I railroad in North America, serving all sorts of industries throughout Canada and the United States.

REAC and RTP are very fortunate for the generous donation and appreciate all that CN has provided for us in the way of funding, field trips, time, and commitments. We look forward to keeping this relationship going well into the future.

NO GBM 2/12/2013

Due to next Tuesday's Railroad Night, there will be no General Business meeting for the month of February.

Speaking of which, Railroad Night is coming up very quickly. Plan ahead to make time after Career Fair as it is undoubtedly going to be a very busy Tuesday for everyone.

As of yesterday at noon, we had 81 students signed up to participate at Railroad Night, but we need more! If you haven't gotten a ticket yet, please do so as soon as possible.

See sign up sheet below for times and locations for ticket sales. If you would like to help out selling tickets too, just type in your name and if you have any questions about getting the supplies, email Kyle Pepin or Dylan Anderson (also below.)

Sign Up Sheet For Ticket Sales

Kyle Pepin - kpepin@mtu.edu

Dylan Anderson - djanders@mtu.edu

Hope to see you all next Tuesday Night!