I looked thru Volume 2 of Morning Sun's New York Harbor Railroads in Color. it has more photos of car floats and a few picrures Sea Train and Sea Land operations too.

Sea Land used to be a big operation that transported railroad cars by sea to various US ports. They used specially built ships for this operation. They lifted the car they were going to load on the ship by using a special dock section with rails that was raised by special dericks on the ship. I'll see if I can get a photo and post it here later. It might be something anyone building a dockyard scene could incorporate. I am not going to do that since I would not only need to buy the properties on either side of the one I own but also the three behind me and then build a much larger house with a full basement before I could do that convincingly.

The only reason I brought it up was to let everyone know that dockyards often had railroad tracks on the docks to help in the loading and unloading of freight from the ships that docked there. This can also happen in modern times when most freight is shiped in containers that cvan be loaded either onto trucks or freight cars at dockside for movement elsewhere.

Noiw what does thi have to do with my car float operations? It has a lot to do with it since the major container ports in the region I am modelling is located in Bayonne, New Jersey and Red Hook, Brooklyn. The Red Hook operation is controlled by Sea Land which is another major ship/truck operator. Both do use truck and rail transportation to forward containers once they have been released by customs if they come from overseas. If the container came from domestic sources they are transhipped as sonn as they are unloaded.

Irv