Merry Christmas!

I'm getting ready to hit the road for the holidays. On behalf of myself, as

"Chief Legal Counsel" (Cheap Legal Counsel?) for the Hicks Car Works, I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a joyous holiday season.

The photo to the right was taken in January 2008 at the Museum of Transportation. It was my first year in St. Louis, having arrived the previous August. We're switching the Philly PCC around the museum to take it into the shop. Our shop is not under wire, and our switch lead is beyond the fence, right next to the UP, ex MOPAC mainline. Just as we clear the fence, I napped this photo as a coal train roars by.