Innkeeper Note:  While our flying fanatics insist that bigger planes will somehow solve the problems of airport chaos, rising fuel costs, airline bankruptcies [American is only the latest], and the simple fact that the airline industry itself is totally UNPROFITABLE [as noted by avid airplane enthusiast RUSH LIMBAUGH on his radio show TODAY], the case [...]

  Innkeeper Note:  Amtrak’s 40th Anniversary power was on Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Division today.  Both TONY KIMMEL and ROBERT A. SHOOK lensed the 04T; TONY at JOHNSTOWN, and ROBERT at GREENSBURG.  TONY included an introduction for his photo… Here is Amtrak 04T from this morning 11/29/2011 at Johnstown,Pa. with Amtrak’s 40th Anv. number 156 “Pointless Arrow” [...]

  Innkeeper Note:  Thanksgiving weekend’s beautiful weather allowed us to get our Christmas lights up without any danger of icy fingers.  We’re thanking all of our many 2011 guests and visitors with our decorated Porch greeting the CSX crews passing by on the neighboring CSX Pittsburgh Sub.  Our automatic floodlighting continues to illuminate passing CSX [...]

  Innkeeper Note:  It’s happened again…  this time a Bessemer & Lake Erie TUNNEL MOTOR is Conway Yard’s latest visitor.  We caught just a glimpse of BLE 907 (?) nearly buried in heavy rail traffic on Monday morning.  How it got to CONWAY and where it was headed remain unclear.  Still, part of a TUNNEL [...]