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ABC News --> Sweet as: Sugar cane train crew marks another season in dream job


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Mackay Sugar crushed the last of its cane for the 2015 season last night, signalling the end of a typically frenetic six-month period at the company's three mills.

Among those on the seasonal workforce who go flat out during the crushing season are the cane train drivers and assistants who cart harvested cane from the farms to the mills.

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Audio: Mackay Sugar driver Steve Bailey and driver's assistant Rose Ware discuss their job (ABC Rural)

Driver's assistant Rose Ware said working on the cane trains was a dream job.

"You get to work outdoors, you get to drive around in a train, you get the sunsets, the sunrises... it's awesome," she said.

In the final days of this season's crush, Rose and driver Steve Bailey took ABC Rural on board for a trip into the countryside.

They started with 70 empty bins at Racecourse Mill and hauled them out to be dropped at three different locations where harvest teams needed them.

Leaving the empties behind, they then began collecting bins the harvesters had already filled with cane and hauled them back to the mill ...

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