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 EMD GP11 302 takes a cut of loaded cane cars back toward the mill for processing in Clewiston.

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 310 leads a loaded cane train back to Clewiston

USSC GP40-2 502 takes a long cut of loaded cane cars south through Belle Glade, FL destined for the mill in Clewiston, FL. The Toys for Tots Sugar Express was held for this train just behind me as... (more)

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.

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 GP11 304 pulls a cut of empty rock hoppers out of the small yard in Pahokee as they head back to Clewiston. This was a local job that ran between Clewiston and Canal Point switching and pulli... (more)

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)

United States Sugar's Fort Pierce turns heads through South Bay on their way east, then north toward the Florida East Coast Railway's Fort Pierce yard. Interestingly enough, this line was actually... (more)

United States Sugar Corporation's Fort Pierce turn returns to Clewiston, FL after running to Fort Pierce and back with interchange traffic from the FEC. GP38AC 407 leads the train back south with ... (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.