U.S. Sugar

Aerial view of cargo trains lined up at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

Aerial view of harbour cargo containers in Southern California port near the Long Beach district. LA.

Industrial railway by the Port of Los Angeles.

Project Information

Category: Yard Automation & Computer Aided Dispatching
Client: U.S. Sugar
Project Date: 2014 - 2015

RailComm completed the installation of both a yard automation solution automating 32 switches and a computer-aided dispatch system for the entire mainline at U.S. Sugar, in Clewiston, FL.

As the largest producer in the United States, U.S. Sugar also owns and operates the largest private agricultural railroad in the country which runs 24 hours a day for just-in-time processing. Its 120 miles of mainline connects with South Central Florida Express which connects with Florida East Coast and CSX.

After a site assessment, RailComm identified several solutions in U.S. Sugar’s manufacturing rail yard and with its mainline dispatch method, where automation and technology could add significant safety to its workers, while improving efficiency and productivity.

The yard control system provides entrance/exit routing and remote control of powered switch machines for its Clewiston yard. The system is controlled from a central location within the control tower. Communications from and to the field are powered by RailComm’s communications platform RailComm RADiANT ™ that uses wireless radios over a 2.4 GHz spread spectrum data network.