Support Railway Preservation in Illinois

Bob Kutella · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:38 am

Currently, the State of Illinois has launched a tourism promotion to let popular vote determine the Seven Wonders of Illinois. IRM was nominated in the northern region.

Every week the low vote getters will be deleted until the winners are determined.

See the link - http://www.enjoyillinois.com/sevenwonders/northern.html

You may cast an additional vote EVERY DAY, and increased awareness and attendance is a battle we all strive to gain. The actual process should take only a few seconds of your time and costs nothing.

Please help us out here.

Bob Kutella

Stationary Steam · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:29 am

IRM is the top vote getter so far!

mikefrommontana · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:53 am

Uh Oh! Downtown Galena has pulled ahead. If EVERYBODY who's been to IRM votes (and votes often). We can WIN!

(sorry for the unabashed use of bandwidth here)

Michael Seitz

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:00 pm

It came up "this page cannot be found" for me. Is the site temporarily down?

nathansixchime · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:03 pm **Posts:** 948

mikefrommontana wrote:

Uh Oh! Downtown Galena has pulled ahead. If EVERYBODY who's been to IRM votes (and votes often). We can WIN!

(sorry for the unabashed use of bandwidth here)

Michael Seitz

Now it's tied for Galena! Every vote counts!

KL

Txhighballer · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:49 am **Posts:** 773

I went in through the main site which had a link. In a true salute to past Chicago politics,I voted twice............

Dennis Storzek · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:11 pm

bobyar2001 wrote:

It came up "this page cannot be found" for me. Is the site temporarily down?

Bob let the trailing period get in the link. Tyr:

http://www.enjoyillinois.com/sevenwonders/northern.html

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

Txhighballer wrote:

I went in through the main site which had a link. In a true salute to past Chicago politics,I voted twice............

Whataya mean.....PAST?

Les (A native Chicagoan and proud of it!!!)

Bob Kutella · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:34 am

THANKS for all those helping. It takes only a few seconds to vote, costs nothing, no registration required. As noted on the tourism site, this is only WEEK ONE. Next week I assume some of the non contenders will be dropped and the counters reset.

So please re visit in coming days and please continue to vote.

Yes, they allow another vote every day, and I suspect they never thought of counting the votes any other way!!

Bob Kutella

rev66vette · **Joined:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 3:45 pm **Posts:** 362

I got the "page not found" but there was an additional link noted there which got me in. Keep digging!

With reference to the "double Voter", if we were in a Florida link, would we have to vote by "chad"????

Hmmm...........

Cheers!

R.O.

survivingworldsteam · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:30 pm

I tried to go today to vote for the first time today (voted yesterday), and got the message:

Quote:

You have already submitted your vote for this region today. Please come back tomorrow to submit another vote for your favorite attraction!

I have been disenfranchised! It is all part of a comspiracy to drop the IRM! No, it's discrimination against steam freaks! :D

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Project

Evan · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:18 pm

The site saves a 'cookie' which remembers that you've visted. Two ways to get around it to vote again:

Delete the cookies (if you don't mind other web sites you use also forgetting you've visted them). In Internet Explorer, the menu options are: Tools -> Internet Options... -> Delete Cookies

Switch to a different browser. My system has IE, Firefox, Opera and Netscape installed. I can enter each one and vote again. This avoids the deleting cookies approach.

Bob Kutella · **Posted:** Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:45 pm

The cookie expires 24 hours after you cast a vote. So while they advertise you can vote every day, each next day vote has to come at slightly more than 24 hours, perhaps eventually finding a day you miss your vote, depending on your schedule.

But we greatly appreciate the help.

YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Bob Kutella