Mackay Sugar Cane Railway Narrow Gauge Diesel Hydraulic Locomotives and Sugar Cane Railway Operations
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Mackay is in Queensland, approximately 1000km north of
Brisbane. They operate a private railway that supplies sugar cane from farmers throughout the
district to four sugar mills.
The railway consists of a fleet of 45 locomotives dedicated to cane haulage, 13, 000 cane “bins” and operates over approximately 850km of track. Narrow Gauge Track. Locomotives are Diesel Hydraulic. Sugar cane is mostly grown on the tropical coast of Australia. There are 29 sugar mills in Australia. 25 are located in Queensland, 3 in New South Wales and 1 in West Australia. All of the New South Wales mills and the one in Western Australia use road transport to haul their sugar cane to the factories. Of the 25 mills in Queensland, 22 use private railways to haul their cane to the factories. All of these are 2 foot gauge except for Pioneer Sugar mill near Ayr which operates a 3’6” gauge rail network. |
The 4 current Mills
 Farleigh Mill |
 Marian Mill |
 Pleystowe Mill |
 Racecourse Mill |
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