US Sugar Corporation 148, an Alco-built 4-6-2, slows an excursion train down as it approaches a swing bridge over Lake Okeechobee in Moore Haven, Florida in Apeil 2004.

Alco-built US Sugar 148 leads an "ice cream special" out of Clewiston, Fla on the last Sunday of April 2024

USSC Alco-built 148 waits patiently to take her train back to Clewiston. The passengers are on a layover in Lake Placid getting lunch.

US Sugar Corporation 4-6-2 leaves Lake Placid on the last Saturday of April 2024 heading back to Clewiston behind a sweet steam engine.

US Sugar Corporation 4-6-2 prepares to leave the locomotive shop in Clewiston, Florida with her excursion train on the last Saturday of april in 2024. She was built in April 1920 by American Lo... (more)

United States Sugar 4-6-2 148 leads a train over Lake Okeechobee in Moore Haven, Florida on the trains return trip to Clewiston. She was built in April 1920 by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) f... (more)

Engine #148 backs up across Miami Canal Road as it prepares for another run-by over the trestle just out of frame to the left.

Saturday April 27's run of the Lake Placid Limited passes over Hwy. 27 as the crew makes their way back to the US Sugar shops in Clewiston, Florida. It was a good chase of a neat steam engine and ... (more)

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.

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)