VERMILLION SUGAR COMPANY
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Historical Snapshot: Vermillion Sugar Company For many years in the Louisiana Sugar growing lands in Vermillion Parrish there were two major Sugar refineries making sugar out of cane. One was the Erath Sugar Company at Erath who worked 1,400 acres of land they controlled. The other, the Vermillion Sugar Companny at Abbieville. Louisiana, processed cane sugar furnished by several hundred other local growers, Both companies began about 1909. They both used former steam locomotives purchased from the Southern Pacific (T&NO). Earth engines included 4-4-0 #216 (now at Steamtown) and 4-6-0 #319. The Vermillion Sugar Company's steam operation consisted of moving burgeoning cane around the Abbieville Mill and switching the yard, Also, the locomotives took loaded cars out, and the empty cars back from the connection with the Iberia & Vermillion Railroad Company, later Texas & New Orleans. The two comapnies must have been affiliated as locomotives and equipment moved freely back and forth between the two mills.
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VSC 4-6-0 #1
Image, Vermillion Sugar Co. 4-6-0 Loco #1 Reference only, Not for sale! Vermillion Sugar Company Locomotive 4-6-0 #1 rests at the engine shed. --------------------VSC 4-6-0 #2
Image, Vermillion Sugar Co. 4-6-0 Loco #2 Order No. VSC02I Though the name on the tender is marginal, this view of a 4-6-0 locomotive #2 is believed to be taken at the Vermillion Sugar Company operations at Erath, Louisiana, December 1950. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------VSC 4-6-0 #2A "different engine"
Image, Vermillion Sugar Co. 4-6-0 Loco #2 Reference only, Not for sale! This view was taken in 1950. It is believed to be former Erath 4-6-0 #316 and different than #2 above. It is reported that the Erath Sugar Co. sold this engine to the Vermillion Sugar Company in 1947. It was originally built by Cooke in 1892. --------------------
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