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These listings are the result of many hours of YouTube searching since March 2018. Links were live at that time (both YouTube and individual contributors withdraw materials from time to time); descriptions, etc., have been edited from the contributors' YouTube notes.

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Cuba

CUBAN SUGAR MILL RAILWAYS 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGnhV_e7-3s -- MrJVTB -- Published on Mar 25, 2014
[Primarily steam with some wholestick wagons, presumably railfan specials, on Cai Rafael Frere, Arquimedes Colina, Venezeula, Ciro Redondro, Hermanos Ameijeiras, Jose N Figueredo, Marcelo Salado, Orlando Gonzales Ramirez]
Cuba Railfan Adventure - Cuba Sugar Mills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8cfZLLKogs -- Part 1 -- OScaler1 -- Published on Apr 4, 2012
A look at the steam excursions at Cuban sugar mills in 2012. Part 1 of 3 covering the Australia and Jose Smith Comas mills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38gn8buSwNg -- Part 2 -- OScaler1 -- Published on Apr 4, 2012
Cuban Steam Excursions at the Marcelo Salado and Bartolome Maso sugar mills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOfNVHGmdQ -- Part 3 -- OScaler1 -- Published on Apr 4, 2012
A visit to the Cuban Central American Libre mill, a working sugar mill with Russian diesel electric locomotives to bring in the cane. Plus a little surprise at the end ... [Includes cane dumping sequence at 2:30]
Espartaco Mill.wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaeJdWSrslw -- davegreenfield -- Published on Dec 29, 2010
My favourite Cuban Mill. Two foot six inch gauge 100-year old 2-8-0ss on huge cane trains or buzzing about the mill yard. What a model it would make. Now all gone although there are rumours that the locos survive [Filmed 1997, starts with local "scratchbuilt passenger train"]

Egypt

Egyptian Sugar Cane Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AlkUOPyaNE -- Les Pitcher -- Published on Mar 19, 2012
Video clips from March 2012

India

Steam in India 2005 - Riga Sugar Mill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvNRHzYqTtI -- blackthorne57 -- Published on Jan 22, 2014
In 2005 The Riga Sugar Mill, located in the north east of Bihar State, not far from the Nepal border, operated two metre gauge locos. A 1930 built Hudswell Clarke 0-8-0ST and a small Hunslet 0-4-0 diesel built in 1935. Ox carts were also used to bring a significant quantity of cane to the mill. Despite this ancient motive power, Riga Sugar Mill, is modern a factory and produces Sugar, Molasses, Bagass (the fibrous residue of cane burnt in the furnace to produce power), Ethyl Alcohol, Industrial Alcohol and fertiliser.
Sugar Cane Railway in India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adc4D0iAdG4 -- Railfan Depot -- Published on Jun 7, 2016.
See this Indian steam oddity and the famous Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in "To the Top of the World by Steam" in DVD or Blu-ray: http://rfd.video/DarjeelingHimalayan

Indonesia

Java Mill Tour 1998
This is a light edit of the 1998 Java Sugar Mill Tour led by Rob Dickinson and assisted by TC (Tjeng Chiao). I have organised this from West to East as that was roughly the direction the tour took.
    The footage includes some mills now closed, some that had steam-worked field lines at the time, some that have given up railways entirely and some that are now 100% diesel.
    Now that steam remains in daily use during the season at only 3 mills (and two of these are fireless steam operations), this footage shows a much more steamy Java with lots of variety.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he0O9XSnedc -- Java Mill Tour 1998 Part 1 -- John Raby -- Published on Oct 14, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FghWju5Da7o -- Java Mill Tour 1998 Part 2 -- John Raby -- Published on Oct 14, 2016 -- Java Mill Tour 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHb2Z_QRe7c -- Java 1998 Part 3 -- John Raby -- Published on Oct 14, 2016 -- Java Mill Tour 1998
Steamy Java 1999 DVD
The full DVD has footage of Wringinanom, Semboro, Asembagus, De Maas (now closed), Kebonagung, Merican, Purwodadi and the Ambarawa rack railway. All the mills featured had real, working steam in 1999.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L45P7ajMXzI -- Steamy Java 1999 DVD Part 1 -- John Raby -- Published on Sep 27, 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GU0W6T3Log -- Steamy Java 1999 DVD Part 2 -- John Raby -- Published on Sep 27, 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNtbCHe099A -- Steamy Java 1999 DVD Part 3 -- John Raby -- Published on Sep 27, 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-hZvF6O1TE -- Steamy Java 1999 DVD Part 4 -- John Raby -- Published on Sep 27, 2016.<.dd>
Java: A nice little miscellany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzrsCP9Tabg -- John Raby -- Published on Oct 11, 2016.
This is pre-digital footage from Java which I converted to digital on mini DV tapes in 1999. Most of the footage dates from the early 1990s although it may have been shot as late at 1998 before I go my first digital camera.
I was mainly with Rob Dickinson when I shot this material and I recommend his pages on Java sugar mill steam to anyone who would like to research this topic further - http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/internat.htm.
Mills featured include Pakis Baru, Trangkil, Gondang Baru, Tasikmadu, Kebonagung, Pagottan, Merican, Pesantren, Semboro, Wringinanom, Olean and in all cases with real working steam and in most cases with steam-hauled field trains.

Asia-Pacific Miscellany

Sugar cane Power tiller base cutter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RfPX77OC0Y -- Saravanan Jo -- Published on May 24, 2014, 2:12
[Small tractor-mounted wholestick cutter and hand-fed truck loader, Asia-Pacific -- not Australia]
RT 250B Ratooning & Fertilizer Agricultural Machinery by ATTA International Enterprise Corp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVEFWlaVpNQ -- wang rebecca -- Published on Nov 5, 2013, 0:57
ATTA International Enterprise Corp. offers the high efficiency RT-250B Ratooning & Fertilizer Agricultural Machinery. The RT-250B Ratooning & Fertilizer Agricultural Machinery can help farmers harvest on large farm in harvest season much more efficiency than human-hand.

last updated: 26 April 2018.