The South Central Florida Express Ft. Pierce Turn makes a pickup as cane is harvested from the adjacent field.

The South Central Florida Express Ft. Pierce Turn rolls northbound past the derelict former Florida East Coast office in Belle Glade.

The South Central Florida Express Ft. Pierce Turn crosses a small canal just east of Belle Glade after a pickup at the Belle Glade siding.

SCFE Local shoving down the lead to work the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative, a competitor to US Sugar. In total, US Sugar (SCFE) serves 2 sugar mills which are owned by competitor companies.

USSC 148 leads the annual Sugar Express Toys for Tots train out of their Belle Glade stop, proceeding towards their next stop of Clewiston, then the final stop of Lake Placid.

The 148 storms out of Belle Glade

The 148 arrives at Belle Glade

US Sugar Toy's for Tots Christmas Train begins it's tour of south central Florida lending Santa a hand.

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 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)

A large 45 car Ft Pierce Turn heads back to Clewiston leaning into a nice curve on the old FEC K-Line.

"The Local" pulls two sugar cane syrup tank cars from Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida. Growing up in Michigan, I likely rode in this locomotive at some point, it being a forme... (more)

USSC Cane 5 rumbles through Belle Glade bound for the mill at Clewiston.

USSC 148 simmers in the sun as the crew goes about adding water to the tender. Santa Claus is busy talking with all the children that came to see the train, and the US Marine Corps are unloaded bo... (more)

A USSC Bryant turn passes the 1st annual USSC Christmas train as it sits at the Belle Glade stop giving toys out to local kids with 148 in the lead.