Above: Southern Pacific bagged sugar and molasses train c 1956.
- American Sugar Cane League (c 2003). The Louisiana Sugar Industry. Thibadoux, LA: American Sugar Cane League.
- Pamplhet with short history, map and Louisiana sugarcane statistics. Download from www.amscl.org or CaneSIG mirror (pdf file).
- Butler, WE (1980). Down Among the Sugar Cane: The story of Louisiana sugar plantations and their railroads. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Moran Publishing Corp.
- Now long out of print, this is one of the few books on Louisiana sugar plantations and their railroads, coverig a period of roughly 200 years. A plantation by plantation description with photos of mills, locomotives and rolling stock.
- Saillard, Louis R (2003). Sugar Cane by Rail (Railfan and Railroad, July 2003). Newton, NJ: Carstens Publications, 22:7 July, pp 36-41.
- Sugar cabe train operations on the Louisiana and Delta, short line operator of the ex-SP lines in southern Louisiana.
- Signor, John R (2002). Cane Train (SP Trainline, Fall 2002). Dunsmuir, CA: Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society, #73, pp 36-39.
- Sugar canerail operations of the Southern Pacific system on the T&NO in southern Louisiana. Adapted from an item in the Dec 1956 T&NO Bulletin with an epilogue to 1993 and the present day.
last updated: 14/10/08.