The car float operation was shut down after the new facilities opened.

A car float brought in rail cars by barge to the market.

The train fell off the car float into the river and the prince was drowned.

A phased plan starting with building the enhanced car float was proposed.

This channel allowed the railroad to connect to points west through car float operations.

Today approximately 1,600 cars are "floated" on the remaining car float in the port.

Joining the pontoon end of the transfer bridge to the incoming car float took some time.

The car float operation ended when the Detroit River tunnel was completed.

The wreck became a menace to navigation and was struck at 3am on 16 June by a railroad car float.

The South Basin terminal was used solely for freight, having docks and car float facilities.

The process was infuriatingly slow, in the fractional gee used to make the car float, but this was all we had.

In 1888, the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge opened, making the car float operation less useful.

The complex contained five ferry slips, sixteen passenger train tracks, car float facilities, and extensive yards.

One of the qualities folklore imputed to the Beetle was the idea that its doors sealed tight enough to make the car float.

A train ferry that is a barge is called a car float or rail barge.

However, a car float or rail ferry connects Port-Cartier with Matane.

A ferry (a car float) connects with the Peruvian railhead and port on Puno.

As such, the car float is a specialised form of the lighter, as opposed to a train ferry, which is self-powered.

The Mauretania collided with a car float while still in New York harbor and the ship was forced to return to port.

In 1999 the city of New York rehabilitated the larger 65th Street Yard for car float operations with two lift bridges.

New York Cross Harbor Railroad, the former car float (rail barge transport) operation.

This car float operation was taken over by the New York Dock Railway in September 1979, and was ended the following year.

It is the last remaining car float operation in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Over the years, several plans had been made for a fixed span across the Hudson River south of Albany to replace the numerous car float operations.

A railroad car float or rail barge is an unpowered barge with rail tracks mounted on its deck.