Marcy Meet
Another shot from Day 2 of the festivities in the south Florida canelands with US Sugar Corporation's recently restored 4-6-2 Pacific number 148 at the head of the eight car AAPRCO 'Sugarland Limited' special (plus SCFE's baggage car) operating on rails now belonging to modern day shortline South Central Florida Express.
They have reached the end of their trip here at the north end Marcy just short of the diamond crossing of CSXT's Auburndale Sub. This is about MP K28.4 on the SCFE's leased (since 1998) Florida East Coast Railway's K Branch. USSC 308 (Paducah rebuilt GP11 originally blt. Jan. 1957 as a GP9 for the Illinois Central numbered 9206) had been staged here the day prior and after 148 cuts off the geep will couple to her tender and the pair will run around back to the other end to ready for the return journey to Clewiston.
USSC 148 was built for the Florida East Coast Railway in 1920 at Alco's Richmond Works and served for the FEC for 32 years including operating over the famed 'Overseas Railroad' to Key West until that line was wiped out by the 1935 hurricane. Then from 1952 to 1968, 148 was owned by US Sugar for use on their private cane hauling railroad. Later sold for excursion service on the Black River and Western and Morristown and Erie Railroads she then languished with different owners for decades until being repatriated to Clewiston and restored over a four year period where she now is back on her original 'home rails.'
To learn more about this railroad check out the home page of the Sugar Express, the company's planned tourist train operation: sugarexpress.com/history/
Martin County, Florida
Sunday April 24, 2022
Marcy Meet
Another shot from Day 2 of the festivities in the south Florida canelands with US Sugar Corporation's recently restored 4-6-2 Pacific number 148 at the head of the eight car AAPRCO 'Sugarland Limited' special (plus SCFE's baggage car) operating on rails now belonging to modern day shortline South Central Florida Express.
They have reached the end of their trip here at the north end Marcy just short of the diamond crossing of CSXT's Auburndale Sub. This is about MP K28.4 on the SCFE's leased (since 1998) Florida East Coast Railway's K Branch. USSC 308 (Paducah rebuilt GP11 originally blt. Jan. 1957 as a GP9 for the Illinois Central numbered 9206) had been staged here the day prior and after 148 cuts off the geep will couple to her tender and the pair will run around back to the other end to ready for the return journey to Clewiston.
USSC 148 was built for the Florida East Coast Railway in 1920 at Alco's Richmond Works and served for the FEC for 32 years including operating over the famed 'Overseas Railroad' to Key West until that line was wiped out by the 1935 hurricane. Then from 1952 to 1968, 148 was owned by US Sugar for use on their private cane hauling railroad. Later sold for excursion service on the Black River and Western and Morristown and Erie Railroads she then languished with different owners for decades until being repatriated to Clewiston and restored over a four year period where she now is back on her original 'home rails.'
To learn more about this railroad check out the home page of the Sugar Express, the company's planned tourist train operation: sugarexpress.com/history/
Martin County, Florida
Sunday April 24, 2022