Three former Great Northern Railway passenger cars that were left abandoned in Mississippi have found a new home and a bright future in Florida on U.S. Sugar’s growing tourist operation. This week, Sugar Express announced it had purchased three passenger cars from the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey for use on a future tourist train.

The cars, two built for the GN and one built for the Union Pacific (although later sold to GN), were part of the URHS collection and were leased to the embattled Iowa Pacific, which abandoned them in Mississippi with a number of other pieces of equipment. URHS was forced to sell some of the equipment in order to repair and move other pieces.