Above: Nine images representing the sugar cane industry worldwide: Full bin line into Bingera Mill; 'Thistle' (ComEng 0-6-0 DH, built 1955) with a full rake of bins at Bingera Mill; 'Firing Cane', c 1990, is no longer practiced in most cane growing areas; Automatic bin handling facilities, Strathdees yard, Millaquin Mill; Fiji: navvy transport, 1994. Fiji partially converted to chopped billet bins, but then abandoned them to return to wholestick wagons; Fiji: portable track panels and navvy wagon at the Tavua Depot, 2008; Fiji: FSC #10 at Malele Curve; Cuba: Obdulio Morales charter train for Trains Unlimted Tours on March 4th, 2003. This 700mm railway has a large steam roster in storage which only see use when groups charter trains; and Side-dumping 30 ton cane car built for export by Gregg. Similar 40 ton cars with one side enclosed, rather than two mesh sides, were used by US Sugar in Florida. Source: 1931 Car Builders Cyclopedia..
- Australian Mills: Mill by mill locomotive and photograph listings, some maps and other details.
- Australian Sugar Industry: short history and other details.
- Sugar, Its History, Manufacture and Modelling Benefits by Stan Parsons (pdf file)
- Country notes: Argentina, Australia, Cuba, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Philippines, USA
- Sugar in the News: an idiosyncratic and almost random selection of news items from Australian and overseas publications
- US Sugar Corp chart: Growing and Processing Sugar
- US Sugar Corp chart: Sugar Refining
last updated: 30/10/08.