The Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia built #143 for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1905, and it switched freight cars in rail yards around Charleston, South Carolina. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad became the first railroad to serve the Fort Myers area in 1904, and similar steam engines worked its tracks there. Agrico Chemical Company purchased #143 in 1944 for phosphate mining around Mulberry, Florida, where it hauled cars to and from the mines for interchange with mainline railroads. Retired in 1959, it was displayed at Agrico’s offices at Pierce, moved in the early 1970’s to Webster, Florida, for display at the short-lived Orange Belt Railroad, then moved to Tampa and stored near a cement plant, where its condition deteriorated. Before it was scrapped, the Railroad Museum of South Florida obtained it, moved it to Fort Myers in August 1992, then to Lakes Park in 1995; restoration began in 1999 and was completed in April 2001. Seaboard served Fort Myers from 1926 to 1952, when the Seabord Air Line Railway arrived during Florida’s land boom of the 1920’s and directly competed with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Its extension to Fort Myers branched from the Seaboard line to Boca Grande at Hull, Florida, near Fort Ogden, and terminated in Naples. At Punta Rassa Junction, where Six Mile Cypress Parkway crosses Ten Mile Canal, a branch left the main line and ran through what is now Lakes Park, entering the southern end of the Fragrance Garden, continuing to about the present location, then running south of the present-day boardwalk and causeway across the lake before curving southwest and leaving the park along the West Trail. The line then ran beside and south of present-day Summerlin Road to the farming area of Truckland in Iona, but the branch never reached Punta Rassa. Produce and gladioli were once shipped from this area. In late 1952, Seaboard abandoned its Fort Myers Extension and the Coast Line resumed its monopoly. Later, the Atlantic Coast Line built a short spur off its main line to serve the lime rock mining that created the present lakes in the park. On June 1, 1967, the SAL merged with the ACL to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad.