Florida East Coast No. 153

Florida East Coast Railway No. 153 is a 151 class oil-burning light "Pacific" type (4-6-2), one of seven built for the railroad by Alco in 1922 (#151-#157). These engines joined eighty Pacifics of similar size bought by the FEC between 1907 and 1922.
The locomotive regularly worked the Miami-Key West run until the Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 destroyed the line to the Keys.
In 1940, it was declared "redundant" due to the road's financial woes, and was sold to the United States Sugar Corporation at Clewiston, FL.
In 1957, it was donated to the University of Miami and stored on the Gold Coast Railroad Museum's site at Port Everglades, FL.
When the locomotive operated at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum, it operated every Sunday from March 1957 until November 1966, when the museum moved to Fort Lauderdale, FL, and it received a $10,000 major overhaul. In 1984, it moved with the collection to the museum's current site in Miami, and had further restoration work from 2000 to 2002.
As of today, the locomotive is part of the collection of the Gold Coast Railroad Museum, and is on static display.
Category:ALCO locomotives
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Tender locomotives
Category:American locomotives
Category:Built in 1922
Category:Six-coupled locomotives
Category:4-6-2 steam locomotives
Category:4-6-2 locomotives
Category:Locomotives
Category:Preserved steam locomotives