An interesting video.
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Good video. It would be great to have a car float to introduce new rolling stock onto your layout. Thanks for posting.
Jay
The B&O used to use these barges to ferry freight cars over NY harbor. Very cool, but I'm sure very expensive. Great vid!
CNJ, B&O, PRR, NYC, LV, Erie, DL&W, LIRR and New Haven all operated marine departments for the purpose of transporting freight across the various waterways in the vicinity of New York City.
Bob
Originally Posted by ChessieMD:
The B&O used to use these barges to ferry freight cars over NY harbor. Very cool, but I'm sure very expensive. Great vid!
I can only imagine the cost for that....eeeesh.
Cool video!
Dave
Morning Sun published two excellent books dedicated to railroading in and around New York Harbor. They are titled, appropriately enough, "New York Harbor Railroads In Color" Volumes 1 and 2. They are authored by Mr. Tom Flagg and provide a look into rail marine operations with detail not seen previously. After reading these books, it's easy to grasp the enormity and costs incurred by a railroad in the operation of a marine department.
Volume 1 has been sold out at the publisher from some time and appears to fetch a pretty penny whenever a copy is made available. I believe the second volume is still available.
Bob
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There is only one car float operation left in NY Harbor. NY/NJ Rail ( Formerly NY Cross harbor ) floats cars from Greenville in Jersey City to Brooklyn 53 st. Hurricane Sandy destroyed the old Pennsy Greenville float operation. They removed an old apron from Brooklyn and reinstalled it in Greenville to keep the operation working. The old LIRR Bay Ridge Yards that is owned ny the New York & Atlantic installed new float aprons a few years ago and have yet to use them. There was a plan to float cars to Staten Island Port Ivory if they couldn't get the Arthur Kill drawbridge working after years of no use. Fortunately the bridge worked ok
the cost was cheap conpared to going upstate to cross the river at albany and back down the river
the only rail yard in manhaten was the west side and penn st grand central
i loaded my fathers truck at the piers in the late 50's got to see the operation frist hand
Originally Posted by ChessieMD:
The B&O used to use these barges to ferry freight cars over NY harbor. Very cool, but I'm sure very expensive. Great vid!
I can only imagine the cost for that....eeeesh.
>>the cost was cheap conpared to going upstate to cross the river at albany and back down the river
Actually, the closest crossing to New York was the Poughkeepsie Bridge of the New Haven.
On occasions when fog made float operations impossible, Pennsy would run a detour, hauling cars out of Greenville back west to Trenton, then north on the Bel-Del and L&HR to Maybrook. New Haven would take them across the Hudson and south via HellGate bridge to Long Island.
Customers were never told about this! The move appeared on the passing reports as as just another Greenville - Bay Ridge carfloat interchange and we Trace Clerks were instructed to report it as such!
kent
thanks for the update i only remember hearing about albany
i watched the video no hardhats no backup alarms
there is a video on you tube that shows the salvage of normandy in 1942
i don't know if we can talk about ships in this forum
phil
