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)

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.

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.

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)

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

The rare mileage excursion performs a photo run-by at the Miami Canal. US Sugar's tracks cross this canal at Lake Harbor on the FEC K-Branch and again on the Okeelanta line (shown here).