South Central Florida Express
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| South Central Florida Express | |
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| Reporting marks | SCFE |
| Locale | south Florida |
| Dates of operation | 1994 – present |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge) |
| Headquarters | Clewiston, Florida |
South Central Florida Express, Incorporated (originally known as the South Central Florida Railroad and run by the Brandywine Valley Railroad until September 17, 1994) is a short line railroad in southern Florida run by U.S. Sugar. It serves customers at 26 locations.
U.S. Sugar, the only sugar company in the continental U.S. to transport sugarcane by rail, owns private trackage to take the cane to the SCFE. From there, the SCFE runs around both sides of Lake Okeechobee. The west side connects to CSX at Sebring, and the east side connects to CSX at Marcy and the Florida East Coast Railway at Fort Pierce, with trackage rights to CSX and Norfolk Southern at Jacksonville, Florida.
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The 87 mi (140 km) west connection, west of Lake Harbor, was a CSX line (Sebring Subdivision along the mainline to the sugar fields, and Okeelanta Subdivision on the spur to Lake Harbor), originally part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. It was bought on June 2, 1990, by the Brandywine Valley Railroad, a Lukens Steel subsidiary, and sold to U.S. Sugar on September 17, 1994. U.S. Sugar set up the railroad as separate company with its own board of directors to operate independently from the 119 mi (192 km) branch line U.S. Sugar already owned at the time.
The 71 mi (114 km) east connection, east of Lake Harbor, is still owned by the Florida East Coast Railway as their Fort Pierce-Lake Harbor Branch (also known as the K-Branch). It was part of the original Kissimmee Valley Line to Lake Okeechobee south of near Marcy, and a newer cutoff north of there. On March 2, 1998, South Central Florida Express and the Florida East Coast Railway entered into a car haulage arrangement, allowing SCFE to use the branch and the mainline to interchange with CSX and Norfolk Southern at Jacksonville.
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| Preceded by: St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad |
Short Line Railroad of the Year 1999 |
Succeeded by: Arkansas Midland Railroad |
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