The 2nd Annual US Sugar Santa Train crosses the Caloosahatchee River on its return trip to Clewiston.
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 #148 hauls the first revenue sugarcane train of the season across US-27 in Clewiston
USSC #148 hauls the first revenue sugarcane train of the season across the Moore Haven swing bridge
US Sugar moved their first loads of sugar cane for the season from Moore Haven to the sugar mill in Clewiston on October 1st, using Pacific number 148 to mark the occasion.
USSC kicked off the 2020 harvest season by hauling the first sugar loads to the mill using its newly refurbished steam locomotive number 148! Here it is seen just after departing its christening c... (more)
#148 prepares to haul the last cane loads of the season.
Memorial Day 2021 finds ex-FEC #148 hauling the last cane loads of the season. They do plan to make this happen again during the next season.
After a few test runs in late spring & summer, #148 makes its official return to US Sugar on the first day of the 2020-2021 cane season, pulling a publicity train to the mill.
US Sugar quickly gained notoriety in 2020 for operating their steam locomotive on the only Toys For Tots special in the entire state of Florida.
Santa waves at the crowd from the back of the Georgia 300.
Toys for Tots Santa Express out of Clewiston, passing through South Bay, next stop Belle Glade
Departing Clewiston after the 2nd stop. This 100 year old former FEC locomotive now runs on Vegetable Oil.
