Night Work. The FEC-dressed Pacific poses for pictures during a night photo session before returning to Clewiston, FL.

#148 spent the weekend dressed up as it would have looked when it ran here for FEC.

Engine #148 performs a photo run-by at the wooden trestle over Dasher Road just outside Lake Placid on the former ACl segment of the railroad.

Reflections of the Way I Used to Be. Dressed up in FEC garb, the beautifully restored U.S. Sugar Light Pacific 148 crosses Fisheating Creek during a US Sugar sponsored photo charter.

Sitting in the side track by the depot, the 148 gets serviced and refilled with water getting ready for the night photo shoot later on in the evening

The old Ford was the first of several props to appear on the photo charter.

Calm canal waters provide a beautiful reflection.

One tractor wasn't enough, so the Sugar Express brought out a second one for the photo charter.

The 148, rebranded in FEC livery and hauling USSC sugar cane cars, smokes it up on a photo run-by.

Planes, Trains and Tractors......The Sugar Express pulls out all the stops for the photo charter. Rebranded locomotives, check, Crop duster, check. John Deere tractor, check.

Early Morning Steam. Dressed up in FEC garb, the beautifully restored U.S. Sugar Light Pacific 148 does a runby early on the morning of a photo charter hosted by the railroad.

Eight bovine agree....the eighth (of ten) such steam locomotives delivered to FEC in April 1920 looks right in 2024...it may be 4/20, but you are seeing things right....for the weekend, US Sugar r... (more)

Everybodys darling

Fishers on Fisheating Creek greet the Sugar Express, today running roundtrip from Lake Placid to Clewiston & back. I'm sitting here remembering how this steam operation went from a hope and a d... (more)

With the steam express train on the way home from Saalfeld to Berlin.