A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles...

passenger walkways. To ensure that the rail tracks on the train ferry or car float and the linkspan align precisely it is necessary for the ship to have...

loaded or unloaded at once. A train ferry that is a barge is called a car float or rail barge. Some train ferries are considered pure train ferries that...

southwestern Ontario from Windsor to Niagara Falls. The railroad operated a car-float service over the Detroit River from 1883; an immersed tube tunnel under...

operates within New York City, as do several shortline railroads including a car float across the harbor. In part because of its easily accessible harbor and...

ferries that can be quickly loaded and unloaded by roll-on/roll-off, and car floats or rail barges which are barges that carry trains. Baku – Türkmenbaşy...

transfer bridges which allow rail cars to be loaded and unloaded onto car floats, it is the last of once extensive car float operations in the Port of New...

float and so the float hinges often have to be mounted across the car to avoid surging. Some designs, such as the Stromberg use wide, shallow floats to...

trailer, is a type of truck trailer or semi-trailer to transport vehicles Car float Cruise ferry Frank Bustard Intermodal container Lift-on/lift-off List...

approximately 1,600 cars are "floated" on the remaining car float in the port. The New York New Jersey Rail, LLC transfers freight cars across the Upper...

mark NYNJ) is a switching and terminal railroad that operates the only car float operation across Upper New York Bay between Jersey City, New Jersey and...

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train ferry. A similar structure called a barge slip receives a barge or car float that is used to carry wheeled vehicles across a body of water. Often a...

Hell Gate Bridge. It also interchanges with New York New Jersey Rail's car float at the 65th Street Yard and US Rail of New York in Yaphank, New York....

Railroad in Pocomoke City (north) and the system's car float in Cape Charles, Virginia. A car float, crossing 26 miles (42 km) of the Chesapeake Bay from...

Northwest. Within the Group are three (3) shipyards, an intermodal ferry and car float business, along with a tug and barge transportation company that serves...

Float shifting or floating gears, also called "slip shifting", "dead sticking", or "bang shifting", is the process of changing gears, in typically a non-synchronous...

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the standard for shipyards around the world. Abora Barge Cabin cruiser Car float Dinghy Dory Flatboat Halkett boat Inflatable boat Launch (boat) Log canoe...

addition, the Bush Terminal Company ran a car float operation in which freight cars were loaded aboard car-float barges with railroad tracks, which traveled...

different times, its route has taken it across the Hudson River via a car float between Port Morris and Jersey City (the ferry Maryland), the Poughkeepsie...

West 63rd Street Formerly a car float pier for the New York Central Railroad D West 64th Street 1880s 2011 Formerly a car float pier for the New York Central...

feet (24 m) car float. However, on 15 May 1858 a special train conveying Sa'id's heir presumptive Ahmad Rifaat Pasha fell off the float into the river...

the NH had a freight terminal in Port Morris, Bronx, where car floats transported railroad cars down the East River to Manhattan or New Jersey. Although...

(3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) railhead in Guaqui across Lake Titicaca by car float (Lake Titicaca car float). Chile – a semi-isolated 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) Tacna-Arica...

Heart of Oak written by David Garrick during 1759. Barge Bateau Bull boat Car float Coracle Currach Dory Durham boat Flatboat Gondola Jon boat Keelboat Landing...

Harbor Railroad), transfers freight cars across the bay to the 65th Street Yard in Brooklyn, New York. This car float operation reduces transfer time since...

railcar float operation and a basic rail tunnel, both between New Jersey and Brooklyn. A phased plan starting with building the enhanced car float was proposed...

Junction.: 174  In 1973, the Jersey Central's car float yard was closed; however, the B&O's car-float operation was later brought back to Staten Island...

Merchant marine Maritime history Shipping line Dry cargo Barge Bulk carrier Car float Chain boat Coastal trading vessel Collier Container ship Heavy-lift ship...