We are approximately one month before the Midwest RailFest as of this writing. At this point it's time to solicit your personal information which will go into a confidential contact list. This list will be handled strictly by e-mail to ensure the privacy of those on the list. For those who don't know, the purpose of this list is two-fold. It provides me (and anyone else) the ability to contact others in the group during times we are not together -- in case of emergency or in the unlikely event of last minute changes. Most of us have texting abilities as well, so we can also communicate that way. The other aspect of this list is the hotels where everyone is staying. It is so that those staying at the same place can coordinate and travel together, perhaps have breakfast together, and travel to the start point or back from the end point of that day's activities.
Please do not post this information here or in any other thread on this board.
So at this point please start to e-mail me where you are booked at hotels. If you volunteered the information before, it was explicitly mentioned before that I was not yet ready for it. So all participants please send me the hotels where you will be staying in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Chicago. If I don't have your cell phone number, or it has changed since previous events, please include this as well. Please put something like "MWRF hotels and contact information" in the subject line as well, which makes things easier for me to find.
It is understood that a few have multiple reservations in some locations, and that some may be cancelled or changed between now and our arrival in those cities. Please let me know if any further changes occur. A final update will be sent out around July 13th, in advance of when some will begin their travel.
Once the list is compiled, it will be e-mailed back to all names on the list. It will not be published online nor sent to anyone else. Please also do your part to protect this information, as we don't want personal telephone numbers out there, and some may not want their whereabouts to be known other than the fact they are on the Fest.