Float slip to car float

In the next few years I am gonna build a Train Float ship, love to follow your progress.

What you've done looks very cool!  Do you have a drawing or a photo to work from? 

What a COINCIDENCE, I found a very cool website the other day that has tons of information, photos and drawings:

http://members.trainweb.com/be...ttransferbridge.html

I have two boxes of HO kindling from Campbell that will, one day, with God's help, look something like this:

P.S. I don't believe in "coincidences", I believe in "Providence" - and Howe!

Interesting subject. I'm working on a harbor scene for our club layout which will include a car float, float bridge and gantry bridge. I am trying to replicate as close as possible the LIRR operation which was in Long Island City. It is now a park but the gantries are still there.

The "track plan" has gone through several iterations and will likely change again. Here is the current version.

I built the car float first starting with laying the track and then filling in between the rails so that only the rails were visible. I used 2 rail track since the track will not be powered.

here is the finished car float.

 Although the track on the car float itself is not powered, I wanted to be able to push cars onto it. There was not enough room to go from one track to four on "land" so I decided to make the "float bridge" operational.

I took a Ross 4 way switch and cut it into 3 sections. The first section would be on land, the middle section on the float bridge and the last 3-4 inches where it had opened up to 4 tracks would be on the car float.

Lost momentum on this earlier in 2015 as other projects became a higher priority. I hope to get back to this early in 2016 starting with completing the float bridge and gantry.  Still a work in progress.

I need a way for my Yoder Cement gondolas and other freight to reach NYC!

Here are some additional pictures I have found which may give you ideas.

VICTORY AT SEA!

Hoping to follow your fine example of having no 3rd rail on the car float, itself, I build a "reacher" using a diecast K-line gon, the roller and electro-coupler equipped trucks for a PRR B6 tender (parts bought from Lionel's parts department) and an Electric Railroad RCDR (Mini Commander EX) to operate the couplers - fore and aft. The RCDR is for dummy locomotives and the reacher is addressed in the same fashion.  The unit is very small and, with some modifications to the car to lower the RCDR, I am able to place the "load" in the car to conceal the electronics.

With this arrangement, I will be able to use the car in a prototype manner, as long as one truck remains on 3rd rail, while the locomotive remains on terra firma.  I'd be happy to share the gory details, if any are interested.

Very cool project!