Railroad Car Float Plans
Designing and Building the HO Scale Carfloats. Carfloats come in a variety of sizes and type. On the New York Harbor Railroad I will be constructing three different car floats.
The plans call for two 250 three track transfer floats, two 250 two track platform floats, on3 300 three track transfer float and one 350 two track platform float. The choices of material are vast and Craig ... On the West Coast, Santa Fe, Western Pacific, and Northwestern Pacific operated car floats across San Francisco Bay; while up in Seattle, The Milwaukee Road used a car float to access its isolated operation on the Olympic Peninsula.
Car floats were also used to span the Mississippi River by Illinois Central and Missouri Pacific. Since I did the first article, Free-mo Module Concepts Rail-Marine back in August 2013, I have been toying with plans for a Free-mo module set loosely based on the N&W Detroit river operation In addition to being great eye catchers on a model railroad they make great operation opportunites.
If the barge / float is small it may NOT be switched with a loco on the apron or float, they used idler flats to switch with. The new Tidewater District has many industries, a wharf, and a car float that provides the source of rail cars. The railroad is self-contained using a small diesel locomo-tive for power.
I am in the middle of devising a track plan for the car float operations that will take place on the section known as Bay Ridge. This is where the New Haven originally handled cars brought into Bay Ridge, Brooklyn froom Greenville Yard in Jersey City, NJ by means of car floats from about 1915 through the end of the Penn Central era. Discover the art of yard design with this Guide to Model Railroad Yard Design.
It covers yard types, Operations, and Track Plans, in a 16 page resource for model railroad enthusiasts. Featuring ... In the early 1950's, the Bethlehem Steel Co.
sent plans to the Gen'l Managers Assoc of the various NYC railroads for standardized car floats. The floats were built in Staten Island and used by many of the many NYC RR's that had car floating operations such as the NH, PRR, DL&W, Erie, NYC and others. If you're interested in car float modeling, You might want to pick up the next issue of the N scale Railroading Magazine.
It's about a new way to add a model a working rail barge to any layout. The article is called Building a Rail Marine Interface Mechanism or RMIM (rim) module. Nov/Dec starts the series and it's well worth the reading.
The project is innovative and the results provide a new ... Does your rail master need rolling stock to ford a body of water? This rail car float will do the job. There are three main sections each can be flipped and attached to each other.
If you like the look, you can have two bows or two sterns connected. Add as many center sections as you want to create your own length. At the same time use a bow and short stern section to create a six-inch float ...
