Steamy Christmas in Florida and it's not just the locomotive, highs today challenged 90F / 32C. This was the second year that United States Sugar ran this popular trip.
USSC GP40-2 502 takes a long cut of loaded cane cars south through Belle Glade, FL destined for the mill in Clewiston, FL. The Toys for Tots Sugar Express was held for this train just behind me as... (more)
"The Local" pulls two sugar cane syrup tank cars from Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida. Growing up in Michigan, I likely rode in this locomotive at some point, it being a forme... (more)