US Sugar's "Sugar Express" pulls off the Bryant Lead onto the K-Branch mainline in Pahokee, Florida, running along the southeastern levee of Lake Okeechobee.
The Sugar Express' rare mileage train pauses on the Bryant Yard lead to take on water. Today's excursion took passengers along the FEC K Branch on the east side of Lake Okeechobee.
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)