Unpowered barge with railroad tracks mounted on its deck
A railroad car float in the Upper New York Bay, 1919. A tugboat (towboat) stack is visible behind the middle car.1912 PRR map showing the Greenville Terminal and its car float operations, also the current crossing
A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter[1] with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles, or to locations they could not otherwise go. An unpowered barge, it is towed by a tugboat or pushed by a towboat.
This is distinguished from a train ferry, which is self-powered.
^Lederer, Eugene H. (1945). Port Terminal Operation: Port Terminal Management, Stevedoring, Stowage, Lighterage and Harbor Boats. New York, NY: Cornell Maritime Press. pp. 291–292.
A railroad carfloat or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles...
loaded or unloaded at once. A train ferry that is a barge is called a carfloat or rail barge. An early train ferry was established as early as 1833 by...
passenger walkways. To ensure that the rail tracks on the train ferry or carfloat and the linkspan align precisely it is necessary for the ship to have...
transfer bridges which allow rail cars to be loaded and unloaded onto carfloats, it is the last of once extensive carfloat operations in the Port of New...
southwestern Ontario from Windsor to Niagara Falls. The railroad operated a car-float service over the Detroit River; an immersed tube tunnel under the Detroit...
mark NYNJ) is a switching and terminal railroad that operates the only carfloat operation across Upper New York Bay between Jersey City, New Jersey and...
operates within New York City, as do several shortline railroads including a carfloat across the harbor. In part because of its easily accessible harbor and...
Railroad in Pocomoke City (north) and the system's carfloat in Cape Charles, Virginia. A carfloat, crossing 26 miles (42 km) of the Chesapeake Bay from...
approximately 1,600 cars are "floated" on the remaining carfloat in the port. The New York New Jersey Rail, LLC transfers freight cars across the Upper...
ferries that can be quickly loaded and unloaded by roll-on/roll-off, and carfloats or rail barges which are barges that carry trains. Nine train ferries...
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addition, the Bush Terminal Company ran a carfloat operation in which freight cars were loaded aboard car-float barges with railroad tracks, which traveled...
Northwest. Within the Group are three (3) shipyards, an intermodal ferry and carfloat business, along with a tug and barge transportation company that serves...
Hell Gate Bridge. It also interchanges with New York New Jersey Rail's carfloat at the 65th Street Yard and US Rail of New York in Yaphank, New York....
train ferry. A similar structure called a barge slip receives a barge or carfloat that is used to carry wheeled vehicles across a body of water. Often a...
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...
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feet (24 m) carfloat. However, on 15 May 1858 a special train conveying Sa'id's heir presumptive Ahmad Rifaat Pasha fell off the float into the river...
traffic formerly handled at Cedar Hill Yard was directed there instead, and carfloat service between Cedar Hill Yard and New York City ended. In 1969, the...
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the NH had a freight terminal in Port Morris, Bronx, where carfloats transported railroad cars down the East River to Manhattan or New Jersey. Although...
The complex contained five ferry slips, sixteen passenger train tracks, carfloat facilities, and extensive yards. The facility was also used by the New...
Harbor Railroad), transfers freight cars across the bay to the 65th Street Yard in Brooklyn, New York. This carfloat operation reduces transfer time since...
with small fleets of towboats, barges, and 323 carfloats, specially designed barges with rails so cars could be rolled on. New York subsidized this service...
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