Through the Fields. On the second day of the charter, the FEC 148 pulls a cane train through the many properties of U.S. Sugar Corporation.

Engine #148 steams past a pair of abandoned tractors through the Lake Placid orange groves. The 1929 Ford Model A followed us up from Palmdale and was posed at multiple locations along the rest of... (more)

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

Engine #148 waits for a southbound cane train to clear the track ahead so it can perform a run-by at the Fisheating Creek trestle.

US Sugar #148 was restored to its original FEC appearance this weekend as part of a photography charter that ran between Lake Placid and Lake Harbor along the South Central Florida Express mainlin... (more)

US Sugar #148 meets a southbound cane train outside the Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area.

#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.

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

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)

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)

USSC 148 pulls the AAPRCO steam excursion south towards Clewiston in April 2022

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)

505 passes the Grambling and Benbow load outs whilst hauling an empty sugar cane train from Clewiston to Moore Haven