A lone US Sugar Corp GP38-3 pulls empty sugar cane cars to be reloaded again with natures sweet goodness or delivery to the processing plant in Clewiston. The old girl might remember her long hood forward days from her time as Southern Railway (SOU) 7015, a high hood GP50 built in the 1980s, to (NS) 7015. Norfolk Southern rebuilt her to NS 5837, to EACX 5837, to USSC 410.
U.S. Sugar Corporation is a privately owned agricultural business based in Clewiston, Florida. The company farms over 230,000 acres of land in Hendry, Glades, Martin, and Palm Beach counties. It is the largest producer of sugarcane in the United States by volume, producing over 700,000 tons per year. The company is also a large producer of refined sugar, sweet corn and oranges. The company employs as many as 2500 workers making it one of Florida's largest employers.
U.S. Sugar is the only sugar company in the continental U.S. To transport sugar cane by rail known as the U.S. Sugar Railroad. The railroad is used primarily to transport the raw sugar cane from the fields to the processing plant at Clewiston. U.S. Sugar owns about 120 miles of its own track and also operates the 171-mile-long South Central Florida Railroad. Its trains operate from Sebring to Fort Pierce via Clewiston around the southern perimeter of Lake Okeechobee. It serves customers at 26 locations.
