The Equalizer

                        Sabine District Transportation Club

                                  Member of Traffic Clubs International

 

Volume 07 Issue 07:  July 2007                                                                                                              PO Box 20103,   Beaumont, TX  77720

 

Please keep our troops and their families in your thoughts and prayers.   

 
                                                                Scholarship Entry Deadline August 1, 2007

As in the previous years, the club has available both dependent member scholarships & member scholarships. 

 

Members (in good standing) that are planning on furthering their career & plan to attend college part-time are eligible for scholarships.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scholarship applications can be obtained from the secretary, Sherry Eckerle at (409) 791-3259 or from any Board Member or Officer.

                         

 

 

For dependent scholarships the student must be enrolled for 12 hours for Fall & Spring semesters.  Student must have a parent/legal guardian that is a member (in good standing) of the Sabine District Transportation Club.

 

The scholarship monies are dispersed ˝ for Fall semester & ˝ for the Spring semester.

 

 

 

 

 
                                       August 14, 2007 Railroad Guests at the Cattle Company

Joining us for an 11:30 am luncheon at the Cattle Company will be Mike Murphy of the UP Railroad and Ron Bird of the KCS Railroad.

 

 

                      

 

 

 

 

                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   The Iron Road
"This is the story of the first transcontinental railroad; the greatest, most daring engineering effort the country had yet seen. The time was the 1860s. Imagine the task. The idea was to span the west with iron rails from Omaha to Sacramento, to build a railroad across two-thirds of the continent and some of the most difficult terrain on earth. 'Ruinous space,' a Boston paper called it. Not in all that distance, not in 1,700 miles, was there a single settlement of any appreciable size except at Salt Lake. The railroad would join what essentially were two different countries: California and back East. Construction crews would cross hundreds of miles of desert--push into the mountains at elevations as high as 8,000 feet. It's hard to believe that one river alone, the Weber, would have to be crossed 31 times. And all this without benefit of bulldozers or rock drills, modern explosives, or modern medical facilities.

 

They called it a work of giants. But like all great stories, it's about people: construction bosses, politicians, thousands of workers, and the people who got the whole thing started in the first place."

 

David McCulloch, introducing "The Iron Road" for The American Experience, PBS

 

                                         

 

                   

 
 July’s Fish & Shrimp Fry A Big Hit at Big Rich Courville’s!

This yearly event was held for the first time at Rich Courville’s Catering on Hwy 90 N.  The hospitality was great as well as the food and fellowship. Did we mention fantastic dessert? 

 

Do you recognize any of the crowd?

 

              

 

                     

                                                               

 

 

Many thanks to Clark Freight Lines for the donation of 4 Astro Tickets & Parking Pass for the door prize!  Clark Freight & Wilson Warehouse also donated the cake for dessert.

 

 

The winner of the Astro tickets is Bobby Sullivan of Briggs Equipment.   Congratulations, Bobby!

 

                              

 

                         

 

 

Upcoming Events:

August 14, 2007-Railroad Luncheon at the Cattle Company 11:30 am

                            Announcement of Scholarship winners

 

September 11, 2007 – Guest Speaker for Luncheon at the Cattle Company

 

October 9, 2007 – Fall Golf Outing  TBA

 

November 13, 2007 – Guest Speaker for Luncheon at the Cattle Company

 

December 11, 2007 – Christmas Party at the Cattle Company 6:00 pm.

 

Transportation Club International is having the annual conference this year in Tacoma, Washington. 

 

If you are in the area/are planning to attend, please get in contact with Sherry Eckerle at (409) 791-3259 for enrollment information.

 

This information is also available on the TCI Website, which you can reach as a link on the SDTC web site at: txsdtc.org.

 
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http://www.txsdtc.org

or directly from the server at: http://www.txsdtc.org/equalizer/july2007/

 

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Please make note of new e-mail address:  Sherry.Eckerle@sbcglobal.net

 

 Notice- there will be a Board meeting at 11 am on August 14, 2007 at the Cattle Company.  All Board members are urged to attend.
Did you know? Editor: Larry Kelley  
"Foamers" - name given by crews to people who gather along the tracks to watch and wave at trains. Texas, with 10,473 miles, has the most miles of track 4.5 feet, 8.5 inches; most common width of track.
Andrew Jackson first President to ride on a train Rail track capacity is commonly measured in pounds per yard. Ex 120 pound rail The Texas Railroad Commission  no longer provides economic regulation of the railroad.