The locomotive served on the Florida East Coast Railway from 1922 to 1938 and pulled a train carrying President Calvin Coolidge to Miami in 1928.

153 was one of the last locomotives to reach Miami before the hurricane that year destroyed the bridges to the Florida Keys.

From March 1957 until November 1966, it operated a train called Gold Coast Special in Miami every Sunday.

For pulling the "rescue train" out of Marathon before the Labor Day Hurricane, #153 was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on February 21, 1985.

[1] It is located at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum, 12400 Southwest 152nd Street, Miami, FL.