A handful of engines wait to pull the next set of empty cane trains out of the Clewiston mill as we pass the junction on the SCFE mainline aboard the Sugar Express. Today's two-hour trip took us d... (more)

US Sugar #312 leads the Photo Charter back to Clewiston.

A pair of GP11s rest outside the North Shops in Clewiston. As the new SD40s have arrived, these Paducah rebuilds are being phased out. However, the company's Sugar Express excursions pulled by #14... (more)

HLCX #6341 departs the ready track at Clewiston's North Shops as it heads to the Sugar Mill to grab an empty cane train. #6341 is probably the most interesting locomotive on US Sugar's roster besi... (more)

A pair of MP15s run a loaded cane train through one of the two dumpers at the Clewiston Sugar Mill. During the harvest, the plant operates 24/7. Once a loaded train arrives, the locomotive will un... (more)

It's a busy morning at the Clewiston Sugar Mill with three empty cane trains getting ready to depart. In the background are two MP15s about to run a cane train through the dumper for unloading. Th... (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.

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.

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.

While we were waiting for a photo run-by from USSC 148 at Keela, a loaded ballast train came up the SCFE mainline heading towards Clewiston. Views like this are typically blocked by sugarcane unti... (more)

While we were waiting for a photo run-by from USSC 148 at Keela, a loaded ballast train came up the SCFE mainline heading towards Clewiston. Views like this are typically blocked by sugarcane unti... (more)

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).