The Key Western Railroad was a miniature railroad that operated from 1965 to 1984 in the Florida Keys

Florida Keys

The Florida Keys are a coral archipelago in southeast United States. They begin at the southeastern tip of the Florida peninsula, about south of Miami, and extend in a gentle arc south-southwest and then westward to Key West, the westernmost of the inhabited islands, and on to the uninhabited Dry...

. The railroad's one train was pulled by locomotive #1500 that originally had operated on the Becker Farm Railroad

Becker Farm Railroad

The Becker Farm Railroad was located on the Becker dairy farm in Roseland, New Jersey. This miniature railroad featured a live steam locomotive, small-scale diesel locomotives, and small-scale passenger cars, was the brainchild of Eugene Becker...

 in Roseland, NJ from 1938 to 1965. After the Key Western Railroad ceased operation, locomotive #1500 was acquired by a private individual in Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

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