Sir: Where can I get information about United States sugar mills and the railroads that served them?

-- R. Aponte (rwaponte@coqui.net), January 02, 1999

Answers

I have some info on the sugar mills in Florida, contact me by e-mail for question and answers. Don

-- Donald R. Hensley, Jr. (taplines@greenepa.net), March 07, 1999.

The trade magazine of the Sugar industry was the LOUISIANA PLANTER AND SUGAR MANUFACTURER, a weekly from 1891 to late 1929. Among industry adds and lots of useless trivia (sale and weather reports ) you occasionally find a tidbit. I have scanned an almost complete set at Univ of Texas (Austin) and many copies can be found in Louisiana libraries. In addition Gilmore Sugar Manuals were issued almost annually for most of the world ( I have about 18 different ones for Cuba, and one or 2 for Hawaii, La, Puerto Rico and Dominico etc.)

-- Wayne Weiss (Roundbell@aol.com), February 09, 1999.

The only books I know that cover this subject are as follows:-

HAWAII

"Sugar Trains - Narrow Gauge of Hawaii" by Jesse C.Condi ISBN 0-911760-14-8 Congress card: 73-77543 Pub. 1973 by Glenwood Publishers, P.O.Box 194, Felton, CA

History of the sugar railroads of Hawaii, complete with rosters of the locos.

"Sugar Trains Pictorial" by Jesse C.Condi ISBN 0-911760-21-0 Congress card: 75-11103 Pub. 1975 by Glenwood Publishers

Photographic supplement to book above.

"Fowler Locomotives in the Kingdom of Hawaii" by J.C.Condi ISBN 0-9507169-4-4 / ISSN 0142-5587 Pub. 1993 by the Narrow Gauge Railway Society, UK

A special issue of the NGRS magazine, with a history of the locos built by John Fowler (UK) in the early years of the Hawaiian sugar industry. Contains scale drawings of some of these locos.

LOUISIANA

"Down Among the Sugar Cane" by W.E.Butler No ISBN Pub. 1980 by Morgan Publishing Corp., Baton Rouge, LA

History of the Louisiana sugar railroads, with rosters of some of the lines.

I hope that this is of some use to you.

-- Brian Rumary (brian.rumary@virgin.net), January 15, 1999.