Florida East Coast 148 charges across the short bridge at Rogers Road with its passenger train at 40 miles per hour.

Moving Cane. While the FEC 148 charter waits at the shops, this cane train sped by as one of the excursion crew waves.

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

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)

SCFE Cane 2 crossing over an irrigation canal, pulling 20 empties bound for the Miami Locks loadout. Of note on Cane 2 this day was the classic power lashup, USSC 303, a 1958 built “Paducah rebu... (more)

SCFE Cane 2 creating a smokeshow as they notch up after dropping 25 empties at the Ritta 1 loadout, which is where the switch in the foreground leads to. Ritta is unique to the SCFE as it is the o... (more)

USSC Sugar Road Job 2 returning to Clewiston with 63 cane loads from loadouts around the Bryant area. Trailing DIT is USSC 407, which was picked up from Bryant Yard and swapped with other power. O... (more)

Sugar Road Job 2 outrunning the rain in the background towards Clewiston, pulling 20 loads for the mill. With the creation of the USSC mainline, it’s uncommon to see GP11’s running here, as th... (more)

Still wearing original Southern Pacific paint, HLCX 6341 continues to work in the cane fields of South Central Florida in 2024. Seen here pulling Sugar Road Job 5 on the USSC Mainline with 21 load... (more)

Cane 1 approaching the Clewiston Yard Limits with a friendly wave from the engineer, ending the chase from Venus to Clewiston of US Sugar’s newly acquired tunnel motor. The big American flag in ... (more)

1966 built ex-SP SD40, HLCX 6341, leading Sugar Road Job 1 with 35 empties after dropping some at the Townsite 2 loadout.

1972 built Ex-SP SD45T-2, USSC 6324, pulling 25 loaded cane cars from Benbow 1 and Shawnee into the US Sugar mill.

Cane 3 back on the move with 35 empties for the North fields, a lowboy trailing getting stuck on a crossing would delay them for about 15 minutes before they got back on the move.

With a one of a kind railroad, comes one of a kind views. Seen here is Sugar Road Job 1 passing the Vaughn 1 loadout on the USSC Clewiston Mainline, featuring HLCX 6341 leading. Additionally, mixe... (more)