Steam & Excursion > Santa Steam in Florida

On Saturday, December 12th, 2020 the U.S. Sugar Company operated the Sugar Express Santa Train on the South Central Florida Express Railroad to distribute toys to needy children in the central Florida farming communities around Lake Okechobee. 
The train was powered by recently restored EX Florida East Coast Railway 4-6-2 steam locomotive # 148 with PV Office car Georgia bringing up the markers.
The train made stops at Moore Haven, Clewiston, Belle Glade and Port Mayaca, Florida.

The following photos are from the chase on Saturday:

Photo #1: Pulling out of the South Central Florida Express shops in Clewiston, Florida

Photo #2: Backing westbound departing Clewiston en-route to Moore Haven 

Photo #3 run around in Moore Haven
 

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PHOTO #4: Santa on the Georgia 300 greeting a child in Moore Haven

PHOTO #5: Crossing the Caloosahatchee River bridge departing Moore Haven eastbound on a dark dreary morning

PHOTO #6: Returning to Clewiston in the rain

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PHOTO #7 Santa wave from the Georgia 300 approaching Clewiston in the rain

PHOTO #8 Departing Clewistion with some sunshine

Photo #9 Running through the sugar cane fields en-route to Belle Glade

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Photo 11 Crossing a canal en-route to Belle Glade

Photo 12 Just past South Bay, Florida in the sunshine

Photo 13 Arriving at Belle Glade

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Photo #13 De-training in Belle Glade

Photo #14 Departing Belle Glade. A lot of green Beans went up in that smoke (burns veg. oil)

Phot #15 Leaving Belle Glade en-route to Port Mayaca

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What an excellent surprise!  BSB

Thanks for the look.  I believe that the locomotive was in Traverse City, MI maybe 10 years ago.  Nice to see that someone finally got it running.

John.

Thanks for the great images of the US Sugar 148 out with the Georgia 300-!  I thought the 148 was going to burn sugar cane - SMILE-!

What a SWEET surprise-!


RWS4449 Wrote:
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> Photo #13 De-training in Belle Glade
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> Photo #14 Departing Belle Glade. A lot of green
> Beans went up in that smoke (burns veg. oil)
 

What is it that possesses people people to screw up the front of an engine like that.

For shit's sake, do you have to bitch about everything?  It's a damned Santa train.  Get the hell over it.

Frisco1522 Wrote:
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> For shit's sake, do you have to bitch about
> everything?  It's a damned Santa train.  Get the
> hell over it.

^ Top post of the day right there!

Frisco1522 Wrote:
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> For shit's sake, do you have to bitch about
> everything?  It's a damned Santa train.  Get the
> hell over it.

Haaahaaa, Merry Christmas Don!......I'm just glad this is getting some coverage here, you don't see much anywhere about 148 other than its fakebook page. 

Cheers, Dave

Jesus and Santa