Cane fields and sugar mills. The landscape of South Central Florida is dominated by the sugar production industry, and there are multiple major corporate players in that business. Here, U... (more)

Crossing Miami Canal. US Sugar's newly restored 4-6-2 #148 takes a cut of cane cars compass east, across the Miami Canal, headed toward the little town of Okeelanta, FL. Among the various ... (more)

Raising Cane in South Central Florida. On an uncharacteristically chilly morning in late January, US Sugar's pretty Pacific Locomotive #148 charges southbound with a demonstration cane trai... (more)

Looking shiny and new at 102! Looking stunning pristine at 102 years of age, United States Sugar Locomotive #148 steams in front of the company's Clewiston, Florida engine shops after power... (more)

Crossing the swing bridge on some of the smoothest rails you'll find in North America.

Day one of the Trains Magazine photo charter of US Sugar 148 was a trip from Clewiston to Okeelanta, with 10 empty sugar cane cars ahead of the passenger consist. At the wye in Okeelanta, the pass... (more)

That's right, at one time this was CSXT territory. And the mill in Okeelanta isn't US Sugar and shares property lines with Florida Crystals. This region was part of the Trains Magazine charter, t... (more)

U.S. Sugar 148 performs a runby at Rogers Rd. south of Clewiston, Florida.

Model A meets model 4-6-2. This is just one of those things that happened during Trains Magazine's first charter with #148.

David Welch paces the 1920-built US Sugar 148 in his 1930-built Ford Model A, along US highway 27 near Palmdale, Florida, at a steady 40 miles-per-hour.

The last runby during the Trains Magazine US Sugar 148 photo charter was at the curve near the Shawnee cane loadout between Moore Haven and Clewiston. On the final pass, the crew gave it all they ... (more)

Trains Magazine's photo charter train with US Sugar's pacific #148 is seen here crossing what I call the "curvy bridge", over a canal near the Sugarton cane loadout on the west side of C... (more)

US Sugar 506 shoves into the Bryant Mill yard as the sun sets over the cane fields.