CONTENTS and INDEX for TRANSFER, Issues 9 through 42

�� by Thomas R. Flagg (last rev. 12/2005)

 

�� NOTE these conventions: page numbering: "902" = Transfer No. 9, p.2

������ Vessel names are underlined; book and journal titles are italicized

 

I. CONTENTS of TRANSFER

 

Transfer No. 9� (January‑Mar. 1994)

COVER: Launching the Capt. Richardson !

Welcome Aboard, by John Teichmoeller, 902

Seatrains: the First Container Ships, by Philip Sims, 903‑910

Some Guidelines on Contributing to Transfer, 911; Mystery Photo, 911

Long Island RR Float Yard Operations, an Update, 11/93, by Nicholas Kalis, 912‑913� [for commentary see 1115, 1118]

Rail‑Marine News, 914; Queries, 915

REAR COVER: 1941 photo of loading Seatrain at Hoboken

���� Rail‑Marine Annotated Bibliography, Part I ‑ Lakes (Photocopied Insert)

 

Transfer No. 10� (April‑June, 1994)�

COVER: LIRR tug with two carfloats, NY City skyline in back

��� [commentary on photo: 1002 & 1117]

Introduction to New York Harbor Carfloating Operations Before Conrail by Joel Norman, 1003‑1004 [see also commentary 1005, 1117]

Railroad Marine Services at the Port of New York by Thomas Flagg, 1006‑1012

New York, Phil. & Norfolk Railroad Carferry Cape Charles, 1013‑1017, by John Teichmoeller

Letters, 1019; Addenda/Errata, 1020; Rail‑Marine in Print and Video, 1020

New Product Offerings, 1021; Queries, 1022; Rail‑Marine News, 1123

REAR COVER: map of NY Harbor rail terminals from 1945 Railroad Magazine

��� Insert: Rail‑Marine Annotated Bibliography Part II ‑ East Coast�

 

Transfer No. 11� (July‑Sept. 1994)��

COVER: Seatrain cross‑section, with three levels of boxcars, circa 1951

Building an HO Scale New York Style Carfloat, by Elliot Janofsky, 1103‑1105

New Haven Diesel Tugs Revisited, Steven Lang, Alan Frazer, Allen Wisby, and John Teichmoeller, 1106‑1107

Queries, 1107

Seatrain Part 2, The Fleet, by Seatrain Team, ed. J. Teichmoeller, 1108‑1111

Rail‑Marine in Print & Video, 1112‑1114; Rail‑Marine News, 1115

Long Island Float Yard Operations, an Update 5/94, by Nick Kalis, 1115

Letters, Errata, 1116‑1119

REAR COVER: Three tugs each with their carfloat

��� Insert: East Coast Bibliography Part 2

 

Transfer No. 12� (Oct.‑Dec. 1994)

COVER: drawing of steel truss pontoon bridge from 1901

Seatrain ‑ Part 3, Fleet List Continued, by the Seatrain Team, 1207‑1211

The Transfer Bridge at the Port of New York, Part I:� Introduction and Pontoon Bridges, by Thomas Flagg, 1212‑1218

Rail‑Marine News, 1219; Addenda/Errata, 1220

REAR COVER: Two birdseye views of Erie RR's Manhattan offline float terminal

 

�Transfer No. 13� (January‑March 1995)

COVER: BC Rail float bridge on Howe Sound

Pacific Great Eastern's Maritime Operations, 1913‑1957, by David Morgan and Jim Moore, 1303‑1308

PGE/BC Rail‑Squamish Harbor by Eric L Johnson, 1309

The Transfer Bridge at the Port of New York, Part II:� Suspended Bridges with Separate Aprons by Thomas Flagg, 1310‑1318

Seatrain, Part 4, Terminals, by Seatrain Team, ed. J. Teichmoeller, 1319‑1324

REAR COVER: Seatrain terminal at Texas City, three views

 

Transfer No. 14� (April‑June 1995)

Bay Barge Update by John Teichmoeller, 1403‑1406

A Quick Course In Tonnage by Philip Sims, 1407

The Transfer Bridge At The Port of New York ‑ Part IIa: A Breather and Catch‑Up by John Teichmoeller, 1408‑1412

Rail‑Marine On The Fringe (Marine Rail?), 1313

Seatrain Part V, Finale: Hodgepodge and Mop‑Up by Seatrain Team, ed. by J. Teichmoeller, 1414‑1418

Northeast US Steel Carfloat Architecture: Overview and Observations, Based on Illustrations and Documentary Data, by John Teichmoeller, 1419‑1432

Addenda‑Errata, 1433; Rail‑Marine News, 1434‑1435; Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 1436

Toggles and Bitts ‑ Model Reviews, 1439‑40; Letters, 1441‑1443

 

Transfer No. 15� (July‑September, 1995)

COVER: model carfloats, 5 photos

Carfloat Model Photo Album, 1501

The Great Lakes Car Ferries Reconsidered by George Hilton, 1503‑1505

Overseas Transportation of Railroad Equipment by Philip Sims, 1506‑1509

The Transfer Bridge at the Port of New York ‑ Part III:� Contained‑Apron Bridges, by Thomas Flagg, 1510‑1517

Lifeboat Stations ‑ Queries, 1518; Addenda‑Errata, 1518; Rail‑Marine On The Shelf, 1519

REAR COVER: Photo of Long Island City float bridge

 

Transfer No. 16� (October‑December 1995)

Marine Operations, by David Pearce, 1603‑1611� (how tugs move carfloats)

GLCF (Great Lakes Car Ferries) Reconsidered ‑ Addendum, by George Hilton, 1612

CP Rail's A3 Vancouver Slip, by Brian Pate, 1613‑1616

Rail‑Marine On the Shelf, 1617‑1618; Addenda/Errata, 1619; Lifeboat Stations/Queries, 1619

Letters, 1620‑1622; Rail‑Marine News, 1622‑1623

 

Transfer No. 17� (January‑March 1996)

COVER: Model of Canora at slip

Letters, 1703, 1709

The Point Ellice Ferry Slip, by Brian Pate, 1704‑1709

Model Railroad Carfloat Construction, Port of New York Prototype, Part I ‑ Interchange Floats, by Ron Parisi, 1710‑15

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 1716‑1718

Addenda / Errata, 1719

Rail‑Marine News, 1720

 

Transfer No. 18� (April‑June 1996)

The Western Rivers Transfer Boat Project, by John Teichmoeller, 1802‑1803

Steamer Pelican, Helena‑Trotter's Point Car Ferry, by Robert Tomb, 1804‑1811

The Bullhorn ‑ Blowed Soft, by JT, 1811

Model Railroad Carfloat Construction, Port of New York Prototype,� Part 2 ‑ Interchange Floats, by Ron Parisi, 1812‑1818

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 1819

Rail‑Marine News, 1819

��� Insert: Rail‑Marine Rivers and Gulf Bibliography

 

Transfer No. 19� (July‑December 1996) (Photocopy Issue)

COVERS: Drawing of 285' platform carfloat

"Car Ferry Lines of American Railroads" from Railroad Gazette, 1897, 1903

Model Carfloat Construction, Section 3, by Ron Parisi, 1904‑1916

The Carferry Terminal at St. Ignace, Michigan, by Thomas Flagg, 1917‑1918

Report on N‑Trak East, August 1996, by John Teichmoeller, 1919

Vancouver, BC, Waterfront Map & Description, by Michael McLaughlin and Jim Moore, 1920‑1021

Reacher Cars, Part I, by Brian Pate, 1921‑1922

Chemainus, BC, Slip, by Brian Pate, 1923

Northeastern U.S. Steel Carfloat Architecture, Part 2, by John Teichmoeller and Thomas Flagg (with NY Port carfloat interface dimensions) 1924‑1925

The "Brooklyn Dock Railway Co.": A Model Railroad Design & Scenario (based on fictional prototype), by Pete Hodges, 1926‑1929

LIRR's Ferryboat Rockaway, by John Teichmoeller, drawn by John Nahodyl, 1930‑1931

Steamer Pelican, Helena‑Trotter's Point Carferry, John Teichmoeller, 1934‑41

Details of Western Rivers Inclines, reprinted from Tratman, 1942‑43

 

Transfer No. 20� (January‑April 1997)

COVER: Erie tug Paterson with three deck scows

Vessels of the Railroad Navy at the Port of NY, Part 1: Overview and Deck Scow, by Thomas Flagg, 2003‑2010

The Hiawatha Navy: The Milwaukee Road and Puget Sound, by Jim Moore, 2011‑2019

Letters, including additional commentary on carfloat architecture and NY carfloat interchange standards, 2020‑2021

Queries, 2022; Addenda/Errata, 2022; Rail‑Marine News, 2022

Rail‑Marine on the shelf, 2023‑2027

REAR COVER: Aerial photo of Trotters Point with carferry Pelican, 1956

 

Transfer No. 21� (May‑August, 1997)

COVER: Stick lighter grounded at Edgewater, NJ, 1994

CP Rail's New Tilbury Marine Terminal, by Brian Pate, 2103‑2106

Addenda / Errata, 2106

The Railroad Navy at the Port of New York, Part II: The Stick Lighter, by Thomas Flagg, 2107‑2114

Rail‑Marine News, 2115; Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 2117

REAR COVER: Aerial photo of tug with three stick lighters on the hawser

 

Transfer No. 22� (September‑December 1997)

COVERS: NY Central tug Depew with two covered barges

San Francisco Bay Rail‑Marine I: Appetizer: North pacific Coast Railroad's Barge Service & Sidewheel Tug Tiger, by John Teichmoeller, 2203‑2209

The Railroad Navy in the Port of New York, Part III: The Covered Barge, by Thomas Flagg, 2210‑2220

PGE Marine Operations Update, by Jim Moore, 2221‑2224

Addenda/Errata, 2225; Rail‑Marine News, 2227

 

Transfer No. 23� (January‑May 1998) (Photocopy Issue)

COVERS: Woodcuts of carferry Solano, circa 1883

Historical Tables II: Car Ferry Lines of American Railroads, by R. C. Davison and Bradford Boardman, an abstract and extract, 2303‑2304

Railroad Tugs ‑ Part I: A New York Central Steam Tug, by John Teichmoeller,����� 2305‑2312

"Down to the Sea in HO" by Donald van Dyke, from RR Magazine, March 1941, 2308‑2311

Addenda/Errata, 2313 The Harry E. Merlo, 2313‑2314

The Railroad Navy at the Port of New York, Part IV: The GMA Steel Barges, by Thomas Flagg, 2315‑2321

The Transfer Bridge at the Port of New York, Part IV: Summary, Details, Forces, by Thomas Flagg, 2322‑2328

Hiawatha Navy: The Fleet, compiled by John Teichmoeller, 2328‑2329

Rail‑Marine in San Francisco Bay Area, II:� The Solano and the Contra Costa: An Enthusiast's File, by John Teichmoeller, 2330‑2338 & 2358 & covers

Queries, 2339‑2341; Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 2342‑2351; Rail‑marine News, 2352‑2353; Letters, 2354‑57

 

Transfer No. 24�� (June‑September, 1998)

COVER: NY Central Tug No. 30

The Transfer Bridge at the Port of New York: Part V: Float Yard Design and Operation, by Thomas Flagg, 2402‑2409

The C&O's 1957 Jumbo Car Ferry Project: A Review by George W. Hilton, Editorial Postscript by J. Teichmoeller, 2410‑2414

Railroad Tugs ‑ Part 1A: New York Central Roster and Photos of Nos. 30, 31, 32 by the Tug Team, including John Teichmoeller and George Barrett,

���� with data from Carl Wayne and John Terpenning, 2415‑2420

Addenda/Errata, 2421

Mystery Photo (concrete "snaptrack" carfloat), 2422

Queries and Letters, 2422‑2426; Rail‑Marine News, 2426‑2429; Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 2429‑2431

REAR COVER: Two photos of LIRR ferry Rockaway

 

Transfer No. 25� (October ‑ December 1998)

COVER: Hold barge "Mack" seen from CNJ McMyler coal dumper cab, 1957

The Railroad Navy at the Port of New York, Part V: The Hold Barge, by Thomas Flagg, 2503‑2513

Rail‑Marine News, 2511

Rail‑Marine in San Francisco Bay, III: Western Pacific's San Francisco Navy, by Jim Moore, 2514‑2523

REAR COVER: 1947 Aerial of PRR's Jersey City Pier M & Erie marine repair pier

 

Transfer No. 26�� (January‑April, 1999)

COVERS: photos from PRR 1949 Pennsylvania Railroad Harbor Facilities brochure

Addenda/Errata, Rail‑Marine News, 2603

Reprint of article in Port of NY, Feb. 1927: The Pennsylvania Railroad in the Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Norfolk, 2604‑2613

Addenda/Errata, Rail‑Marine News, Letters, Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, Queries

 

Transfer No. 27�� (May‑August, 1999)�

COVER: B&O 26th St. Float Bridge, NY

Rail‑Marine News, 2702, 2720

Foothold in Gotham: Offline Rail Terminals at the Port of New York, II: The Baltimore & Ohio RR's West 26th St. Yard, by Thomas Flagg, 2703‑2718

���� (revised and lengthened version of this article appeared in B&O Hist. Soc. journal Sentinel, Vol. 23 No. 3, 2001, pp. 3‑35)

Editor's Notebook ‑ Sunken Floatbridges, Jersey Greenback and Diesels, John Teichmoeller, 2718‑2719

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 2720‑2723

REAR COVER: Two aerial photos of B&O 26th St. yard

�� INSERT: Golden State Rail‑Marine Bibliography: Rail‑Marine in California Waters, compiled by John Teichmoeller; Jim Moore and Bob Parkson, editorial consultants

 

Transfer No. 28��� (October‑December 1999)� (Photocopy issue)

COVERS: Color photo of Detroit River Carferry Lansdowne in 1960s

Cargo Hoists and Married Falls, 2804‑2805

Notes on the "Port Series", T. Flagg, 2806‑2807, with maps of PRR's Harsimus Cove terminal, 2808‑2810;

Bells, Whistles, Gongs and Jingles by David Pearce, 2811‑2812

Western Pacific's San Francisco Bay Navy: A Followup (with track diagrams), by John Teichmoeller, 2813‑2817

Red Star Barge Drawing by George Baustert, 2818

B&O's 26th St. floatbridges, 2819‑2822

Railroading Along the Waterfront with Walthers, by John Teichmoeller, 2824‑2825

Where Rails Meet the Sea, Errata, by John Teichmoeller, 2825‑2826

Vancouver area, CP Rail information, CSPAN, 2827‑2831

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 2832‑2833; Letters

 

Transfer No. 29�� (January‑April 2000)

COVER: Aerial of carferry Canora loading at Tilbury

The Canadian National Railways Car Ferry Canora: A Photo Study for Model Building by Brian Pate, 2904‑2915.

Railway Ferry on the Russian Great Lake by Philip Sims, 2916‑2920.

Rail‑Marine News, Addenda/Errata, 2903, 2920; Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, Queries, Letters, 2921‑2925.

 

Transfer No. 30�� (May‑August 2000)�

COVER: Steam lighter Blairstown in color, by Conrad Milster

RMIG website, 3002

Milwaukee Road's Pier 27 Seattle, by Noel T. Holley, 3003‑3010

Editor's Postscript: Transfer Boat Tacoma/ Barge M.T. No. 6, 3011

Railroad Navy at the Port of New York Part 6A: Self‑Propelled Lighters, by Thomas Flagg, 3013‑3021

Lake Titicaca Train Ferry Trip by Philip Sims, 3023‑3025

Rail‑Marine News, 3002, 3022, 3026‑3027; Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 3027‑3028

Letters, 3029‑3031

REAR COVER: Painting by Steve Cryan of Tug Milwaukee and barge M.T. No. 7

 

Transfer No. 31� (September‑December 2000)

COVER: Steam Lighter Commerce

REAR COVER: Port Reading, NJ, coal trestle

Rail‑Marine News, 3102 etc.

Railroad Navy at the Port of New York Part 6B: Roster of Self‑Propelled Lighters, by Thomas Flagg, 3103‑3108

Rail Service at Baie‑Comeau, 3109‑3111

Railroad Tugs part 2 by John Teichmoeller, 3112‑3116

Diesel Tugboats Built for Railroads 1949‑1960 by George Barrett, 3117‑3118

Rail‑Marine On The Shelf, 3120‑3123; Letters 3123‑3126

 

Transfer No. 32��� (January‑August 2001)

COVER: Sketch of Victor under way

Russian Ice Breaking Train Ferries ‑ from Phillip Sims, 3203

The Georges Alexander Lebel at Baie Comeau and Matane" by Rene Beauchamp with commentary by Ross McLeod, 3204‑3305

Rail‑Marine in Baltimore Harbor in Walthers' Railroading Along the Waterfront by John Teichmoeller, 3206‑3216

Canora Revisited by John Teichmoeller, 3222

 

Transfer No. 33�� (September‑December 2001)

COVER: stern of Tug Pleon in drydock (Steve Lang)

Pipeline ‑ future articles

Overseas Transportation of Railroad Equipment or Heavy Load, Part 2 by Phil Sims, 3305‑3307

Carfloating in the Gulf of Mexico ‑ 1990s Style by John Teichmoeller, 3308‑3316

Erie's Diesel Lighter Hornet, diagram, John Koenig, 3317

 

Transfer No. 34� (January‑March 2002)

COVER: Front view of Memphis, Southern combination tug and passenger steamer

Portland (Maine) Terminal Co. Facilities, reprint of brochure

Rail‑Marine in the Hampton Roads, various reprints, ed. by Teichmoeller

Henderson, Western Rivers transfer boat project #2, ed. by Teichmoeller

REAR COVER: Southern RR Tug Louisville

 

Transfer No. 35� (April‑August 2002)

COVER: NYC Tugs at Weehawken tie‑up, color, by Roberts

Tugboats of the New York Central: The Main Boats and the Rest, by T. Flagg, 3503‑3512

Building and Detailing the Walthers Diesel Tug Kit by George Barrett, 3513‑3520

Careful Handling for a Big Load (reprint from 1966 Pennsy) 3521

RR Tug Update 3522

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf by John Teichmoeller, 3524‑3526

Santa Fe's Alice Street Yard, Oakland ‑ A Modeling Alternative 3527

REAR COVER: Model tugs by John Koenig

 

Transfer No. 36� (September‑December 2002)

COVER: Art Chavez with boxcar bracing

Car Floats to Galveston, by Allen Wisby, 3503‑3606

New York Central Tug Fleet Followup, by Thomas Flagg, 3607‑3609

Rigging for Heavy Weather: Setting Up Gear on Railcars Aboard the Lake Michigan Car Ferries, by Arthur Chavez, 3610‑3616

Rail‑Marine News, 3617‑3619

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 3620‑3624; Letters 3625‑3627

REAR COVER: N&W towboat RGCassidy and barge on Detroit River

 

Transfer No. 37� (January‑April 2003)

COVER: Bush Terminal Co. Annual Report 1958 image

Brooklyn Waterfront Railroads Part 1: Bush Terminal by Thomas Flagg, 3703‑3715

Addenda‑Errata, and Rail‑Marine News, 3716‑3718

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf 3719‑3723; Letters, 3724‑3725

Lehigh Valley's Diesel Fleet by David Pearce, 3726‑3727

REAR COVER: Aerial photo of Bush; Map of Bush 1957

 

Transfer No. 38� (May ‑ August 2003)

COVER: Launch of B&O carfloat

Launch and Delivery of B&O RR Carfloats No. 199 and 200 by John Teichmoeller, 3803‑3810

Design of Railcar Fastenings Used in Worldwide Train Ferry Operations by Arthur P. Chavez, 3811‑3816

Handling Railroad Barges in New York Harbor by David Pearce, 3817‑3822

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 3825‑3827

REAR COVER: Bush Terminal tug

 

Transfer No. 39� (September ‑ December 2003)

COVER: Hay‑De in Tottenville Marine shipyard

B&O's Carfloats ‑ Continued, 3902

Lehigh Valley's Barge No. 79, 3905‑3912

Erie's 28th St. Station, New York, by Thomas Flagg and Vincent Lee, 3913‑3921

Addenda & Errata (for No. 37 & 38): 3922

Rail‑Marine News, 3922‑3926; Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 3926‑3929; Letters, 3929‑3931

REAR COVER: Erie 28th St. Station, Figs. 6 & 19

 

Transfer No. 40� (January‑May 2004)

COVER: Floating Grain Elevator Ceres w. grain barge Holley

The Railroad Navy at the Port of NY, Part VIII: The Floating Grain Elevators by Thomas Flagg, 4003‑4015, 4018

Lehigh Valley RR Covered Barge, cross‑section drawings, 4016‑4017

The Ferrrovia Centro‑Atalntica, A South American Train Ferry Operation, by Philip Sims, 4019 & 4018

The B&O Marine Story, Part VIII: B&O Carflots and Heavy Duty Flatcar, by John Teichmoeller, 4019‑4021

Letters, 4022‑4024 & 4018; Rail‑Marine News, 4025‑4026; Rail‑Marine On the Shelf, 4028‑4031

REAR COVER: Two Floating Grain Elevators Loading Ship at West Shore RR Pier

 

Transfer No. 41� (June‑December 2005)

COVER: MODEL of SOLANO

Hopper Cars Ahoy! (Service to Brooklyn Brewery via modified carfloat; reprint of article from 1964), commentary by T. Flagg, 4102‑4105

Richborough Transportation Depot and Train Ferry (reprint of 1919 British article, English Channel train ferry), intro by Phil Sims, commentary by J. Teichmoeller, 4106‑4109

The Solano and Contra Costa, Part 2, by John Teichmoeller and Willaim Rubarth and Robert Parkinson, 4114‑4120 & 4113

"Metamorphosis": Photos and Progress Commentary by Buddy Adams (conversion of former railroad tugs to Gulf Coast Standard), 4121‑4123

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 4123‑4126; Rail‑Marine News 4127‑4129; Letters 4129

REAR COVER: Cresent Towing’s conversion of tug Indianopolis

 

Transfer No. 42� (January‑June 2005)

COVER: NYCH (ex‑Bush Terminal) Reacher Car No. 101

Transfer Bridges at the Port of New York (tabulated), by Scott Wisner, 4203‑06

18 Miles from Jersey City: The Lehigh Valley Railroad's Bronx Terminal at East 149th Street, by David C. Pearce and Ralph A. Heiss, 4207‑4216

Idler and Reacher Car Pictorial, by John McCluskey, 4217‑4219

"Rail‑Marine in Mesopotamia" / More Latin American Rail‑Marine Argentine Rail Ferry, by Phil Sims, 4220

Addenda/Errata, 4221‑4223; Rail‑Marine News, 4223‑4224

Rail‑Marine on the Shelf, 4225‑4228; Letters, 4228‑4232

Covered Refrigerator Barge (from HAER Survey), by John Teichmoeller, 4232‑4236

REAR COVER: 1985 Aerial View of Shooter's Island barge graveyard

 

 

�II. SOME ERRATA

Printed errata in Transfer: 1019, 1102, 1119, 1202, 1219, 2421, 2502, 2603, 2835, 3202, 3304, 3402, 3602, 3716, 3802, 3922, 4002

Also noted are these:

2417: NYC No. 30 not scrapped in 1961 but 1969 (see 2603)

3103: Wrong engraving was printed here, that of tug Pittsburgh.� The cut of Despatch was supplied 3202.

3117: DL&W tug Utica was renamed Scandinavia for a time; see 3608

3204: First line of article should refer to Transfer No. 31, not 32.�

3513: Spiro review was in RMC Oct. 1999 issue (3602)

3521: The Pennsy issue with the article was Nov. 1, 1966, not 1996 (3602)

3622: Review of "Tugs Everlasting" article ‑ that article did give photo credits, but they were printed in a strange place, lengthwise along the "gutter" of a page.

3810: 6th item under Letters should be headed "Plans of Wooden Barges" not Carfloats

 

 

�III. INDEX

 

[A]

AAR, 908

Abegweit (carferry), 2116, correction 2225, 2920

Abitibi Consolidated, paper company operating carferry in Canada, 3109

ABS, 910, 1109, 1209

Acadia, 1021

Accidents, float bridge, 3625 (pix of CNJ engine in water)

Accomac/Northampton Transportation District Authority, 1404

Adams, Buddy, 4224

Adams, Rob, 1617

Adams, Arthur, 2921

Aerial views: float bridges, 3711; refrig. barge and other hulks, 4236

Ainsworth, Walt, 3011

Air brakes in switching floats, 1605

Akron (Erie tug, ON 265942, later called Patrick McAllister), 3116; 3324, 3522, 4224

Alameda and� San Joaquin RR, 2515

Alabama State Docks, see Mobile

Alameda Belt Line, modeling it, 4226 (ref. to articles)

Alaska (carferry), 3205, 3929 (model in museum)

Alaska, 914, 1023, 1112, 1219, 3219

Alaska Railroad (www.alaskarails.org), 1618, 1945, 2022, 2026, 2118, 3205, 3218, 4031

Alaska (contemporary carfloating) Railbelt Marine / Alaska Hydrotrain, 2920, 3029 (correction), 3218, 3318, 4031

Alaska Aquatrain service, (see also Prince Rupert; Aquatrain), 3720, 3926

Alaska Trainship Corp., 3205

Albatross (carferry), 1804

Albion, Robert Greenhalgh, 1011

Allen, Frederick, 2346

America (Floating grain elevator), 4009, 4011‑4012

American Brown Boveri, 1430

"American Line 1871‑1902", article by Flayhart in Steamboat Bill on the PRR's steamship line, summarized 3621

American Model Builders (www.rgspemkt.com), HO scale covered barge kit, 3722, 4030, 4125‑26, 4227 (comments & hints)

American Ship Building Co. drawings (built Great Lakes carferries), 2619

"Analysis of Potential Freight Ferry Alternatives to the Proposed Cross Harvbor Freight Tunnel", 4126

Anchorage Provider (Alaska carferry), 3218

Ann Arbor carferry photo collection available, 3226

Ann Arbor No. 1, 1504

Ann Arbor's Frankfort/Elberta MI terminal area, 1617, 1717, 1945

Ann Arbor Railroad, 903, 916, 1019, 1504, 1617, 1717, 1945, 2116, 2117, 2119, 3321

Ann Arbor Railroad's tie‑down system, 1612, 3811

Ann Arbor Railroad Technical & Historical Association publications, 1818, 2117, 2346

Annas, Victor, tug models 3931

Annies, 1617

Anthracite Railroads Historical Society drawings of LV equipment, 2351

Anthracite Railroads Historical Society Meet, July 1997, report by JT, 2115; mention of videos of the meet, 2923, reviews of videos, 3122‑3123

Apron, 1005, 1021, 1212, 1214, 1308, 1310, 1510

Apron, see also Float Bridge

Apron, Milwaukee Road Seattle Pier 27, description, 3006

Apron‑Carfloat interface, NY, 1925, 2122, 2325‑26 (w. drawing)

Apron operating strut (PRR floatbridges), 1953

Aqua, ex‑NYC No. 29 (steam lighter), 3021

Aquaplay modular model canals, 1718

Aquatrain, 1022, 1112, 1219, 1520, 3720, 3926

Aratere (New Zealand carferry), 2617, 2913

Arcara, Roger, video, 2619

"Architecture" of vessels, see type of vessel, e.g. Carfloat

Archives: New Haven RR, 3225

Archives: Pennsylvania State (PRR drawings), 3324

Archives: see also Bibliographies

Arctic Taglu (tug), 2520

Argentina‑Paraguay train ferries, 3926, 4029, 4220

Arlington, 908, 1114

ARM see Alaska Railbelt Marine

Armorplate, 1423

Armstrong, John, 1317

Army tugs (WW II), 4125

Arnold, Tom, 1420

Arrow, 1106

Arthur K. Atkinson, 1434, 3925, 4128

Arthur Kill, 2507

Ascher, John P., 1519

Ashdown, Dana, 1519

Ashtabula, OH, rail operations, 2339

AT&SF ‑ see Santa Fe

ATF type tugs (WW II), 3927

Atlantic & Danville RR transfer bridge, from Engineering News, 3418

Atlantic Basin, Brooklyn, 2003

Atlantic Towing, 3207

Atlases, insurance (or real estate), 2351

Audiotape of harbor sounds, 3927

Austin, Addison, 918

Avondale, LA., 1942

 

[B]

Babcock and Wilcox, 1109, 1207, 1209

Back issues of magazines, source, 2722; 3031

Back issues of Transfer, 4202

Badger (car ferry), 1434, 1438, 1716, 2227, 2346, 2352, 3217, 3717, 3824, 3925, 4029

Badger, book by Chavez, rev. 3826

Badger, in video, 2330

Baie‑Comeau / Matane carferry service (current), 2623, see article by Phil Sims, 3109‑3111; more: 3204‑3205;

��� ‑ followup with more bibliography, 3623

Baikal (Siberian carferry), 2616, 2916‑2919, 3203

Baker, Capt. Allen, 1435

Baldwin locomotive, 1508

Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1506

Bali Sea (carferry at Mobile), 3217

Baltic carferry services, see Germany

Baltic Terminal, Brooklyn, 1523, 2106, 3304

Baltimore, 909, 915, 917, 918, 1005, 1102

Baltimore Harbor, rail‑marine operations, w. map, 3206‑3215

Baltimore RMIG chapter, 2511

B&O / Baltimore & Ohio RR, 1203, 1205, 1206

B&O at Locust Point, Baltimore, 1945

B&O barge colors, 2218

B&O barge No. 452 cabin on land at St. George, 2723

B&O carferry service at Baltimore, 19th century, 3208, 3212, see also John W. Garrett

B&O carferry/carfloat at Pittsburgh, 2303

B&O carfloats, 1420, 1925

B&O No. 199 & 200, carfloats: 3803‑09;

B&O No. 198, carfloat, 3902

B&O Carfloats, reprint of article from B&O Magazine, 3809 & 3903

B&O coal business in N.Y. Harbor, 2507

B&O consolidated diagrams, 1419, 2219

B&O diesel tugs ‑ mention of series in TugBitts by Teichmoeller, 2430

"B&O Railroad Diesel Tugs", 3922 (report on Teichmoeller article in The Sentinel)

B&O hopper cars, in Port Reading photo, 3126

B&O horse car, traveling with, 2615, 2723

B&O horse cars (via carfloat) 2724

B&O float bridge at W. 26th St, Manhattan, 1606, 2701, 2715‑2716 plus photos; plans 2819‑2822;

����� ‑ dedication of preserved structure, 3923

B&O 26th St. Terminal, Manhattan, 2703‑2718; reference to followup article in Sentinel, 3425

B&O floatbridge in Philadelphia, 3026

B&O moves heavy generator on carfloat in Baltimore, 3927, 4020

B&O on the Ohio River at Wheeling, 3028 (ref. to article in Sentinel, Vol. 22 No.2, 2nd qtr. 2000, pp. 27‑30); 3220; followup on additions, 3320

B&O RR Historical Society Convention, 1623; 3617; 3923 (at Newark)

B&O St. George terminal, 2603, 2723 (pcs. of barges present)

B&O steel covered barges, photos, 3209‑3210

B&O Summary of Equipment (Floating equipment, Baltimore, 1953), 3216

B&O Timesaver service (at NY), 2713

B&O tugboat colors, pre‑1950s, JT's query, 915; partial answer 1418; photo showing colors, 3724

B&O tug, day in the life of a tugboat crew (article in Tugbitts), 3220

B&O tugs, see B&O diesel tugs

B&O West 26th St. yard, 2701, 2703‑2719, 2724, 2832

Baltimore Harbor, 1420

Bananas, 1008, 3207 (at Baltimore), 3226 (at Boston)

Banda Sea (carferry at Mobile), 3217

Banner Plastics, toy tugs etc., 2614

Barb, Mike, 1520

Bard, Erwin, 1010

Barge captains, 4223

Barge construction, 2503, 3907 (in photos)

Barge, definition and description, 2005

Barge No. 1 (also No. 2, No. 3), WP carfloat, 2519

Barna, Carl, 913, 918

Barnard, Ken (HO containers), 2623

Barney, 2505

Barrett, George, 2116, 2614, 2615, 2834, 3116‑18 (master list of postwar tugs), 3513‑3519 (on building Walthers tug kit), 3627 (mystery photo), 4223, 4229

Bastian, Beverly Wright, 1107

Bates, Alan, 1947, 2120, 3927, 3929

Bath (DL&W tug), 1718

Bathtub, rail‑marine in the, 2614 (Banner Plastics toys)

Battery, 1203

Battleships, 908

Baustert, George, 2614, 2623, 3029, 3126, 3425, 4130‑31 (plan), 4228

Baxter, Raymond J., 1202, 2345, 2430, 2921, 3012, 3021

Bay barges, 1404

Bay Ridge Harbor RR (model rr), 3720

Bay Ridge terminal (LIRR and NYNH&HRR), 1514, 2404‑2405, 2408 (track plan)

Bay Ridge terminal, rebuilt, 4125

Bay Shipbuilding yard, 1434

Baysinger II (car barge), 2346

BC Government Archives, 2350

BC Electric, 1305

BC Marine Ltd., 1303

BC Rail, 917, 1302, 1308, 2229

Bearco Marine Models (upgrading VOCO line), 3221, 3427, 3525, 3928

Beardslee, David 918, 1019, 2116, 2422‑2423

Beasley, Norman, 1308

Beatty, Bob, MR author, 2617

Beauchamp, Rene, 3204

Becker, Jay, 2339

Bed‑and‑breakfast in ex‑carferry (Milwaukee), 3403

BEDT, 1106, 1113, 1116, 1217

BEDT Alco S‑1's, ref. to article in 12‑02 MRG, 3721

BEDT carfloat roster, 1427

BEDT carfloats steel‑hulled, not wooden, 1953

BEDT Pidgeon St. Yard, 2430

Bee Line, 3120

Belanger, Roger, 2617

Belle Chasse Seatrain Terminal, 1322

Bellingham, WA, (transfer bridge), 2013, 2023, 2116, 3003

Belmoira, 1506, 1509

Belt Line, 1010

Bendersky, Jay, 1011, 1106

Bending wood, 1817

Bensel, J.A., 1310

Berg, Walter C., 1011, 2344

Bernstein, Fred, NY Times article, 3927

Berthius, John, 1319

Berwind White Coal co., 2503, 2509

Best, Gerald, 2613

Bethlehem (LVRR tug), 3727, 4229 (in 2005)

Bethlehem Steel, 1320

Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Pt., 1424

Beth Steel S.I. Yard: see Staten Island

Bibliographies and references, see bibliography inserts in lists of Contents above; also: 911, 1019, 1202, 2358, 3112‑3115 (on RR Tugs), 3206 (Baltimore Harbor rail‑marine); 4226 (various useful references on train ferries), 4227 (Great Lakes)�

Biernacki, Dan, 1012, 2115

Big Book of Real Boats and Ships, 2622

Big Horn (sternwheel transfer boat), 2120

"Big Mac", CNJ McMyler coal dumper, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507

Bilge log, 2007

Bilge pump, dwg. & info, 3910

Bilgewater, 2005

Binghampton, 909, 1114

Birkenhead, 1208

Birney cars being loaded onto ship, 3305‑3307

Bissell, Capt., 916

Bitts, Dick, 1113

Bitts, 1003, 1004, 1020, 1115, 1217, 1426, 1604, 1605

Blackhawk (tug), 2023

Blairstown (steam lighter), 3001 (color cover), 3002, 3020, 3927‑3928

Blakely (carfloat at Mobile), 1021, 2619 (video)�

Blardone, Chuck, 1102

Bloxom, PRR tug, 4225

Blue Mountain Express, 2921

Bluejacket Ship Crafters, tug model, review, 1818 (see 1619)

Bluejacket Ship Crafters, yard boat model, 1819

Boardman, Bradford, 2203

Boat Landing, (Elberta) MI (Ann Arbor RR), 1945, 2346

"Boatnerd" internet site, 3525

Bogart, Charles, 3720

Boland, Mike, 2923, 3721

Bollinger (tug rebuilderin Algiers, LA), 3929

Bommer, Edward, 2718

Boneyard Chronicles (series in NY Tug Times), 3220

Boone, Dave, 3716, 3824

Boot, W.J.J., 1617

Borg, Kenneth, 3717

Bosque, see DuBosque

Bossler, Craig, 3927, 3931

Boston & Maine research, 2121

Boston & Maine carfloat operation in Boston, 2303

Boston Harbor Rails N'Tugs Cruises, 3922

Boston rail‑marine, 2355; 2424‑2425 (note: the Clapp 1916 book actually has nothing in it about extant Boston rail‑marine, only proposals); 3226 (info from New Haven RR records)

Boston Towing & Transportation, 3717, 3922‑3923

Boston Tugboat Muster (annual, held in August), 3617

"Box" as term for hold barge, 2503

Boxcab diesel, 1206

"Boxcars on the Delaware", cites article on Reading carfloat operation, 2921

Bowes design: comparative anatomy, 3116; ref. to article in B&O Sentinel (23‑1) on Bowes tugs, 3220; 3923

Bow propellers, 3029

Bow‑load, 1115

Bowstring hogchains, 1519

Bracing timbers, 1509

Bradley, Michael, 3925

Brandywine (Reading tug) 3502 (model and info); 3617

Brazil: Car ferry Ferrovia Centro‑Atlantico, 4019

Break bulk, 1507

Brennan, Joseph, 2346

Brewery traffic via carfloat, LV RR, 4109

Bridge crew, 1607

Bridge hooks, 1426

Bridge lines, 1608

Bridge cars, 1607

Bridgemen, 1514

Bridging a carfloat, 1217, 1608

Bridging carfloats the modern way (Galveston), 3312‑13

Bridgit (carferry), 3619, 3717 (not Brigit)

Briggs, Russ, 4023 (drawing of Victor)

British Columbia's Rail Water Services in 1968, review, 1717

British Columbia ‑ see BC

British Railway Modelers of North America (BRMNA), 1308

British imports of GM Canada locos ‑ see General Motors

Broadbelt/Baldwin Collection, 1506

Broadway, Mike (MR author), 2617

Bronx Terminal Market, 1516

Bronx Terminals (summary of available info), 4202

Bronx Terminals, see also Harlem River

Brooke Ave. yard, Norfolk, VA, 3425

Brooklyn, as seen on SIA tours, 3520

Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1516

Brooklyn, sequence of uses of this tug name, 3224

Brooklyn (NY Dock tug; several tugs had this name), 1521, 2722, 4029

Brooklyn (NY Dock tug), models of: 2615; 2722, 2921 (1:32)

Brooklyn (NY Dock tug), afterlife as Florida, 3618

Brooklyn "Stores", 3905, 4004

Brooklyn Waterfront Terminals update, 1435

Brouwer, Norman, 1011, 1107, 1108, 1116, 1207, 1209, 1320, 1406, 1414, 2005, 2111, 2212, 2505, 2616, 3013, 3020, 3220, 4025

Browne, Blair, 1418

Brown, Richard, 1622

Brubaker, Bob, 3403

Brunette, Barbara, 2924‑25

Buckelew, Michael, 1945

Buckhaults, Cindy, 3902, 4002, 4031

Bucyrus (PRR self‑propelled lighter), 3015, 3106, 3304

Buildings and Structures of American Railroads, 2344

Bumblebee (NH RR tug, later Cross Harbor 1), 917, 1106, 3617, 3922, 4029; 4224 see also New Haven diesel tugs

Bulk cement containers, delivery via water, 2423

Bumpers on carfloats, 1104, 1117, 1426, 1605

Bunkering a ship, 2509

Burlington, 914

BN (Burlington‑Northern) 914, 1021, 1219

BN carfloat operation in Vancouver, 2924, 3029

Bucket elevator, 4004

Bull wheels, 3006

Burlington‑Northern's Galveston‑Mexico Barge Service, 3308‑3316; see Galveston

Burrard Drydock (builder of Incan carferries), 3205

Burrard Inlet, 1303, 1308, 1435

Burt Industries, various ship models, 2618, 3321

Burton, Lance, 2823

Burtner and Tingey, 1426

Bush Terminal, 1004, 1009, 1113, 1216, 3701‑3715 (full article)

Bush Terminal, modeling, 3721 (review of article in Model RR Planning)

Bush Terminal GE 1930s diesel locomotives, 3810, 3939 (plan)

Butler Bros., 1513

 

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C&O Carfloat No. 4, 2339

C&O see Chesapeake and Ohio

Cabin Branch float bridge, 1438

Cabins, captains, on barges, 2214‑2215

Cadwalader, Robert N., 1618

Calis, 2347

Caloroso, Bill, 2340

Camber, deck, 1424, 2007, 2008

Camden, NJ, 902, 1005

Campbell, Ken, 1520 Campbell, Lorne, 1115

Canada Northern RR, terminal at Port Mann, B.C., 3720

Canadian Lakes carfloating: 3627; see also Okanagan; Kootenay;

Canadian locos shipped to UK, 2623, see also General Motors

Canadian National, see CN

Canadian Pacific, see CP RAIL

Canadian vessels, sources of information on, 2202

Canadianoxy Chemicals, 1309, 2229

Canal boats in coal service, NY Harbor, 2504

Canals, modular model, 1718

Canora (CN Car Ferry), 1613, 17 cover photo, 1720; 3124; major article on prototype and model by Brian Pate, 2904‑2920; "Canora Revisited" article, 3222‑3221; cont. 3326‑3327

Canton (PW&B carferry), 3212

Canton grain elevator, PRR, 2609, 2611

Canton Piers, PRR, 2610

Cape Charles, sidewheel walking beam carferry steamer, 918, 1013, 1018, 1117, 1206, 1403, 3120, 3526 (model ‑ photo p.3523)

Cape Charles carferry operation, see Chesepeake Bay

Capmoore (LV tug, ON 263352, later Hawkins Point), 1435, 1523, 3522, 3727, 3922, 4223‑4224

Captain Edward Richardson (later Nandua), 1403, 3526 (model), 3824

Captain, carfloat, 1605

Captains, barge, see Barge Captains

Caption for Transfer No. 10 cover photo (PRR poster ref. photo), 1002, 1116, 1119, 1219

Car‑cradle, 905�� (see Incline)

Car‑to‑steamer Miss. River transfer, via incline and floating "wharf‑boat" transfer shed, 1943

Car dumper, see McMyler

Carey, Oliver (pres. of N.Y. Dock RR), 3713

Carferries, earliest: 1932; 3811

Carferries, rigging used to keep cars in place: 13601 & 3610‑3615; 3811‑3816

Carferries vs. tunnel, 4126

"Carferry Lines of American Railroads" reprint, 2303

Carferry carts for models, 1520, 1622, 1624, 1709, 1819, 1933; ‑ see also Staging

Carferry slips, 1704‑1709, 2802

Car Ferry Yard‑‑Detroit Michigan, 1438

Car floating, 1603

Car shaker, 2503

Carfloating, modern: see RAIL MARINE, CONTEMPORARY

Carfloat Architecture, Northeast steel, 1419‑1426; 1924‑1925

Carfloat cart, see Carferry cart

Carfloat deck plan, with NY standard spacings, 1925

Carfloat details, reference photos, 1427

Carfloat plans, New Haven, NY Central, 1430

Carfloat drawings, NY Harbor, list of, and availability, 1924

Carfloat drawings available, Miss. River (Mo. Ill. RR) 1520

Carfloat handling, by tugs, at NY, 1609, 2021

Carfloat‑Floatbridge Interface, 1925, 2122, 2325‑2326

Carfloat interchange at NY, agreements, 2021

Carfloat model, building, 1103, 1710, 1812, 1904

Carfloat model in O gauge, article ref., 3827

Carfloat model, building from Walthers kit, 2617 (mention of article by Parisi in Rail Model Journal, April 1999, pp. 56‑65)

Carfloat models, commercial, 1439, 1819, 2431

Carfloat, modified to unload covered hoppers on board, 4109

Carfloat modularity, 1924

Carfloat, New York Central, E.21, with Birney cars for shipping, 3305‑3307

Carfloat nomenclature, 1420

Carfloat numbers, their meaning, Erie: 2020� (On postwar Erie, last 2 digits showed year built)

Carfloat rails: spacing and frog size, with plan, 1925

Carfloat rosters, B&O, 1421

Carfloat rosters, BEDT & NY Dock, 1427‑1428

"Carfloat Strength and Deflection", article summarized, 1426

Carfloat toggle pin spacing variations, 2122

Carfloats, B&O, launch and delivery (in 1952), 3803

Carfloats, concrete: see Concrete carfloats

Carfloats, "shorty"/shortie, 1105

Carfloat, LV, short, description in 1894 Nautical Gazette, 3625

Carfloats, short, prototype, Willamette River, 1952

Carfloats, short, prototype, B&O and Western Maryland, 1420

Carfloats, short, New Haven at Boston (196'), 3226

Carfloats in WW II (sent to Europe), 1119. 2832

Carfloat staging: see Staging

Cargill, 2517

Cargo masts, 2804

Cariboo, 1308

Caricature carfloat, 1419

�� ‑ see also Carfloats, short

"Caricature" [shorty] barges/operations, 1105, 1523

�� ‑ see also Small Rail‑Marine prototype

Carrier Princess carferry, 1614, 1720, 2103‑2106

Carquinez Strait operation, see Southern Pacific

Carstens, Harold, 1108, 1414

Casablanca, 909, 1209

Caspian Sea train ferries, 4125

Cassidy, tug, see R.G.Cassidy

Castellon, Spain (scrapping site), 1207, 1209

Catawissa tug, 2023

Categories of model competitions, boats, 3122

Catenary at float bridge, 1514

Catskill, NY, 2507

Cazadero, 1521

Cement delivery via water, in containers, 2423

Central Gulf Railway, 3622

Central of Georgia RR, 907

Central RR of New Jersey Stations, Structures & Marine Equipment, pub. of CNJRRHS, 4122

Central RR of NJ, see CNJ RR below

Central Stores (Manhattan), see Terminal Stores

Century green: see New York Central colors

Central Vermont Trans. Co., 3121 (cites article on); 4225

CG Rail (contemporary U.S.‑Mexico service), 4224

Chainplates, 2109

Chalfant, Randolph, 4127 (obit)

Chandlery boats, 3020

Chapman, Bob, 4023

Charles C. Danaiff, mothballed Liberty Ship, 4032 (photo), 4113 (info)

Charles River Landing Ltd., 1619

Charles Ward Engineering Co., 1520

Chase, Richard, 3622, 3717, 3929

Chauncey M. Depew (NYC tug), 2202, 2923, 3724

Chavez, Art, 3426; 3601 & 3610‑3615 (article on bracing/railcar fastening), 3717; 3811‑3816 (article on design of fastenings); 3827 (ref. to his articles on Pere Marquette)

Chavez, Art, author of journal issue on Pere Marquette, 3424;

Chavez, Art, book on Badger by, 3826

Chemainus, BC, carferry slip, 1923

Chesapeake, 902, 1017, 1022, 2347

Chesapeake and Ohio RR, 1520;

Chesapeake and Ohio RR, carferries on lake Michigan, video, 2230

Chesapeake and Ohio RR carferries, see Badger and Spartan

Chesapeake and Ohio RR carferry decals, 3122

Chesapeake and Ohio RR marine operations at Newport News, 1945, 2339

Chesapeake and Ohio RR, cites article on offline terminal at Norfolk, 1520

C&O's Brooke Ave. Yard, Norfolk (carfloat‑served), 3425

C&O 452 (tug/barge), 2352

C&O carfloat, surviving, seen on Staten Island, 3924

C&O proposed 1957 jumbo Lake Michigan carferry, by Hilton, 2410, 2603

Chesapeake Bay Barge service: New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk carferry Cape Charles, ref. to article by Teichmoeller in Summer 1993, Keystone, "Bay Barge Update" 1403‑1406, see also 3120, 3411; rev. of article by Tom Reevy in Nat. Ry. Bull. 3826, 4125

Chester, 910, 1109, 1207, 1209

Chiavetto, Phil, 2621 (photo)

Chief Wawatam (carferry), 2604, 2720, 3927 (in painting)

Childs, Jeff, 2833 (descrip. of model rr), 3026 (deceased)

China Basin, 3304, 3319

Chine log, 2007

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul RR see Milwaukee Road

Chicago River carfloat service, Erie RR, 2024, 2106, 2354, 3927

Chicago Rail‑to‑Transfer, article on, 4029

Chicago (PRR tug), 1112

Chinese train ferry (Hainan Strait), 3718, 3826

Chocking, 1116

Chocks, 1217, 1605

CHL (Custom House License) Number, 2218

Christen Smith, 1619

Christina River (Wilmington, DE), beached barges, 3525

Christy Corp., shipbuilder, 2346

Cindy No. 1, 1305, 2222

City of Flint 32, see Roanoke

City of Midland 41, 916, 1434, 2228, 2230, 2346, 2352, 3621

City of Milwaukee (carferry), 1435, 1720, 2229, 2230, 2604, 2702, 2803, 2921, as bed‑and‑breakfast 3403; 3617, 3925, 3928 (model), 4025

Civil war carfloating diorama, 3121

Clamps, 1103, 3125

Clamps on Lake Michigan car ferries, 3610‑3615

Clamp Timber, 2007

Clapp, Frank A., 2345, 2603 (re Boston Rail‑Marine, note: Clapp book actually has nothing in it about extant Boston rail‑marine, only proposals)

Claremont Terminal (LV RR), photo, 4229

Class 66 diesel loco deliveries, see General Motors of Canada

Cleats, 1104, 1117, 1216, 1217, 1426, 1605, 2020

Clinton, 1303

Clinton St. Pier 1, Baltimore, on PRR, 3210

Clowes, Art, 2024

Clyde, River, Scotland: Granton‑Buntisland "Floating Railway", early carferry operation, 1933; 3811

Clyde‑Mallory Line, 1207

Clyde Puffer, type of small freighter, 2119

CM&STP see Milwaukee Road

CN carfloat operation, 918, 1112, 1219

CN service to Alaska, 3720

CN No. 2 (CN tug), 3223

CN Point Ellice slip, 1613, 2345

CN St. Lawrence operation, see Baie‑Comeau

CN Northumberland Strait carferries (afterlife), 4224

CNJ RR (CRRofNJ), 911, 906, 1004, 1005, 1012, 1106, 1107, 1113, 1118, 1114, 1203, 1206, 1214, 1219, 2111, 2507

CNJ RR Jersey City float bridge mishap, 3625 (photos)

CNJ RR marine department, esp. lighters: see Greenberg's letter, 3224

CNJ RR Bronx Terminal, 2117, 4127

CNJ RR Historical Society, 1219, 3622 (first issue of its CNJ journal), 4122� (2nd journal)

CNJ RR Marine equipment and structures, book of images, 4123

 

CNJ New York Harbor operations, article in CNJ Historical Journal, 3622

CNJ No. 29 (steam lighter), 3014

CNJ tug Roselle, rr tug that became Navy tug, source of info, 3928

CNJ round freight house, 2354

CNJ self‑propelled lighters, 3103, addenda 3225

Coal boxes or barges (see also Hold Barge), 2003, 2503, 3126

Coal barge, river type, 3121

Coal jobbers, 2505

Coal to Canada, review, 3027

Coal traffic, 1009 (NY); 1020 (NYO&W); 2503‑2505 (NY Harbor)

Coal‑fired, 1112

Coast Guard Vessel Search, 4227

Coastal Forces, mfgr. of HO sardine carrier and other N & HO boats, 2119, update 2225; 2356; 4221

Coatzacoalcos (Mexican railcar barge terminal), 3312; 3810

Cocoa bean traffic at NY, 4228

"Cockpit", pocket for WP carfloat alignment, 2519

Coe, see W.R.Coe

Collias, Joe, 3718

Collier, small, 2340

Collision between carfloat and steamer, on postcard, 4129

Collora, Gene (photo source), 3827

Colors of marine equipment: covered barges, 2218; NYC colors 2307; gray/lightning stripe NYC tug, 2614; determining colors from photos, 2834

� Colors: see also B&O tug colors, B&O barge colors; New York Central

Columbia (tug), 1404, 2346

Columbia (Merritt Chapman floating crane), 3306‑3307 (pix)

Commerce, steam lighter owned by Pennsylvania Steel, 3101‑3102; 3225

Communication, rail‑marine: "bells, whistles, gongs and jingles", 2811‑2812

Communipaw (CNJ tug), 3116 (as Brian F., in Maine)

Concrete hulled carfloats, 1518, 2422, 2623, 2723

Condit, Carl, 1011

Conrad, Hans‑Joachim, card models of European train ferries, 3426

Conrail Historical Society, 1819

Consolidation Class tugs, 2922, 3718, 4029, 4121, 4221

Contained apron, 1513, 1516, 2323, 2328

Container crane, paper model, 1718

Container terminal (model), 1618

Containership (former Seatrain), 1211

Containerships, 1209

Contemporary carfloating: see Rail Marine, Contemporary

Contra Costa (carferry), 1436, 2117, 2330‑2338 (part 1), 2358� (see also 2421), 4114‑4120 (part 2), 4221

Conversion to oil, see Oil

Conversions of RR tugs to non‑RR, 4029

Conveyor, 1305

Convoy (WWII), 1119, 1219, 1947

Cook, Clayton, 22118

Cook, Preston 917, 1012, 1106, 1107, 2115, 3113 (list of articles by), 4223 (resurfaces),

Cooleybeck, Patrick, 2354

Coolidge, Robert, model of NH tug, 2117

Copying maps in a library with a camera, 2351

Corbett, Hart, 2203

Cordelia (tug), 917, 1107 "Core" references for bibliography, 2358; see also New Haven diesel tugs

Cornell (ex‑Erie tug), 3717

Cornell (LV diesel tug), 3522, 3617, 3726, 3922 (twice), 4222, 4224

Cornelia (PRR tug), 2340

Corning (Erie self‑propelled lighter), 3015

Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, 2005, 2213, 2505

Corps of Engineers, Port Series publications, 2619; 2806‑2807

Cory, Lee, 2346, 2424

Cotterell, Harry Jr., 1505

Cottonwood, 1305, 1433

COVER photo (of Transfer No. 10) caption, see Caption

Covered barges, article, 2210‑2220; also see followup with details on PRR barges by Moyer, 2357

Covered barge models, 3720, 3722

Covered barge model, see American Model Builders

Covered barge photos, additional: B&O steel, 3209‑3210

Covered barges of the Lehigh Valley RR, 2424

Covered barges, see also LV No. 79

Covered barges, refrigerator, see Refrigerator barges

Covered derrick barges, 2218

Couch, Harvey, 2343

Counterweight, 1004, 1021, 1103, 1306, 1310

Coupler, 917

CN carfloat operation, 918, 1112, 1219

Couch, Harvey, 2343

Coxey, Will, 1703

CP in Brooklyn, NY, 3216

CP RAIL, 914, 918, 1022, 1219, 1115, 1303, 1435, 1720, 2103, 2345

CP Rail, story of operations by Ross McLeod, 3204‑3205

CP Rail's Coastal Fleet, 2345

CP Rail, Tilbury terminal at Vancouver, 1719, 1950, 2103

CP Rail, use of ex‑WP carferry, 2520

CP Rail's A3 Vancouver Slip, 1613, 1719, 1720, 1920

CP Rail Vancouver operations: procedures and schedules, 2826‑30

CP Rail, see also Incan Princess and Incan St. Laurent

CPR Barge No. 6, 2231; CPR Barge No. 2, 4024

CPR Burrard Dock, 1303

CP Rail's A3, 1602

Cradles and Cradle systems: see Incline & Cradle systems

Crammer, David, 2922 (mention of article on Pacific Harbor Line); 3525 (mention of article on Harbor Belt Line, Los Angeles)

Crane barges, 2110

Cranes, dockside, 3211‑3212 (Baltimore), 3220 (ref. to article on Port Covington crane)

Cranes, dock, lack of at NY and reasons therefore, 2107

Crawford, Robert (NYCH), 2228

Crawford & Reid, 1303

Crescent Towing, New Orleans, 1819, 3523 (former Consolidation tugs), 3618, 3718, 3929, 4029 (former Consol. tugs), 4121‑22

Crew size, tugboat, see Manning

Crisp, Robert, 2117

Cross Channel train ferries, see Train Ferries, Britain to France

Cross Harbor freight tunnel, see Tunnel

Cross Harbor RR, see New York Cross Harbor

Cross Harbor 1 tug, see Bumblebee

Crow River Products HO Car Float Kit #202, 915, 1105, 1439 (review)

Crow River Products HO model of steam tug Exeter, 915, 2617

Crow River Products N Scale Car Float Kit, 1819

Crow River Products "chairs", 1819

Crow River Products, taken over by Sea Port Model Works, 4126

Crowley, barge breakup, 2023, 2117

Crowley Maritime, Alaska service, 2920, 3022, 3218

CRRofNJ see CNJ

Cryan, Steve, 1021, 1113, 1440, 2426, 2616, 2903, 3108

Cryan, Steve, painting of Tug Milwaukee and� MT No. 7, 3030, 3002

Cryan, Steve, untitled video of NY rail‑marine scenes, 1113, 2619

CSX, 918, 1115, 1219

CSX tug Kodiak, 2352

Cuba, 907, 1219, 1436, 3108

Cudahy, Brian J., 1436

Cumberland, 1021

Cunard Building, 3902, 4023

Curtis Bay (ex‑Chauncey Depew), 3724

Curtis Bay Railroad, 2511

Curtis Bay Towing, 1102, 1435, 3207

Custer, Jack, 1219, 1402, 1520, 1602, 1802

Custom House License number, see CHL

 

[D]

Daffodil, British WW II conversion of LNE carferries, 2618

Dake, Shawn J., 2345

Dalberg, Jim, 4128

Dalzell, 1106, 1107, 1118, 1219

DANFS (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships), 1108, 1109, 1209

Danish train ferry, 2022, correction 2121, 3523; 3926, 4029

Daring (tug), 1303, 2221

Dart, Joseph (inventor of grain elevator), 4004

Davison, R. C., 2303

"Day in the Life of� B&O Tugboat Crew", ref. to article in B&O Magazine reprinted in Tugbitts, 3220

Dayton (Erie self‑propelled lighter), 3012, 3015, 3104

Dayton (PRR self‑propelled lighter), 3015, 3107, 3324 (source for hull lines)

Dayton, Frank, 1217, 1218

Dayton, Scottie, 3621

Dead rails, 1504

Deadweight, 1407

Decals, for marine equipment, 3122, 3322

Deckhand, 1116

Deck cargo, 1507

Deck, carfloat, 1425 Deck plan of rr tug, showing bitts etc., 1703

Deckhouse, 1004, 1014, 1116

Dekoven, carferry, 1804

DeLaval, 1109

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, DL&W, 908, 1009, 1012, 1021, 1118, 1958, 2111, 2507, 2508

DL&W tugs, working on (& use of coal), 2834

DL&W tug Orange (former), now at Tampa, 2720

DL&W No. 175 (steel deck scow), photo 2426

Delaney, Mike, paintings of carferries, 4231

Delaware River carfloat operations, 2921, 3120 (as subject to model)

Delmarva, 1014

DeLozier, Edward, 2832

Demoro, Harre, 1020

Demuccio, Joe, 902, 1107, 1418, 1518, 2023

Denny, Bernard, 3509 (cites article on steam)

Depew, see NY Central tugs

Derrick lighter, 2110

Despatch (lighter), 3103 (but with wrong illus; see 3202 for correction)

Detroit (carferry), 3824

Detroit River carferry operation, 1115, 1219, 1622; 3626‑27 (photos of remains); 3628 (photo); 4024 (firsthand worker description)

Detroit River barges for sale, 2920

Detroit River‑style carferry model, 1945

Detroit River, see also Manitowoc, Roanoke

Deutschland (II), Germany‑Denmark carferry, 3219

Devoe and Harold, 1003

DeVries, Peter, photo of his Long Island City Floatbridge model, 1524, 1619

Dialogue shipyard, Camden, NJ, 3608

Diamond (ELHS journal), 2024 (ref. to 3 articles incl. Chicago);

��� 2345, 2430 (marine issue)

Diane Foss tug, 2015

 

Dibner, Brent, 1020, 1119, 1619, 2922, 3927, 4029, 4030, 4125, 4225

Dicke (shipbuilder), 2204

Diesel Tugs built for Railroads, postwar, see Railroad Tugs, postwar diesel

Diesel tugs built for NY Central, 3511

Dieselization, in self‑propelled lighters, 3015

Dieselizing a tug: photo of new engine being lowered into Louisville, 3414

DISASTERS, 910, 1016

Displacement tons, 1407

Disposition of postwar railroad tugs: see Diesel Tugs, postwar

Documentation of vessels: see vessel documentation

Dola, PGE tug, 1303, 2221

The DO Lines ‑ The Story of the Railroads Created to Take Over Lines Unwanted by Conrail, review, 1717

Dominion Government Public Dock, 1306

Dominion, 1018

Donahue Building, Tiburon, 1107

DonJon Marine, 1005

Door County Maritime Museum exhibit, 3717

Double A, 1617, 2346; see Ann Arbor Hist. Assoc.

Double crossovers, in float bridge approaches, 2403, 2404

Double Slip Switches, in yard ladders, 3710

Double‑ended ferries, 1505

Dougherty, R.E., 1513��

Dover (England) carferry, 4026

Drawings of vessels in Transfer:

��� B&O platform carfloat, 1401

��� CNJ steel carfloat, 1712

��� Carfloat drawings available, 1924;

��� GMA barges, drawing, 2320; availability of larger versions, 2425

�� Hornell (Erie self‑propelled lighter), 3317

�� LV RR No. 462 (Stick lighter), 2113‑2114 & 2226

�� New York Central Tugs No. 30, 31, and 32, 2311

��� New York Central and New Haven RR steel carfloats built 1926, 1429‑32

��� New York Central Tugs No. 3 & 9 (steam, USRA design), 3507

��� Norfolk Southern wooden carfloat and No. 19, wooden house barge, 3413,3417

�� Pelican drawings, 1804 & 1934;

��� PGE's Point Ellice, 1304

�� Tiger, 2209; NYC Covered Barge Cohoes, 2216;

��� Refrigerator barge, 4234

Drawings, float bridges: see Float bridge, drawings

Drawings in other locations, referenced: River barge drawings, 1520; Port

��� Townsend transfer bridge, 2120; NH proposed tug drawings available, 2341;

��� LV RR marine equipment drawings available, 2351, described in detail 2424; Red Star steel hold barge, 2818; see also B&O 26th St. Floatbridge; John Fryant's plans for sale, 3221; Abe Taubman's list of marine plans for sale, 4126; 4127 (NYC tug drawing available)

Drawings from Underground Railway Press (w. rr & marine subjects), 3929

Dredging floatbridge slips, 1218, 2325

"Drilling" out a barge, 3820

Droege, John A., 1206, 1218, 2344

Droning Ingrid, former Danish train ferry, 3523

DSS&A, St. Ignace, MI, 1917

DuBosque, F. L., 1216, 1218, 1313, 2305 (tug typology), 2507, 3112, 3504, 3512

Dual‑gauge carferry, 3023

Duisberg, Germany, carferry 3219

Duluth, video on, 2230

Duluth, photo w. Incan Superior, 2614

Duluth/Superior to Thunder Bay service, see Incan Superior

Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, see St. Ignace

Dumas tug kit (Brooklyn, 3/8" scale), 1521, 2722, 2921 (error in text: 1/32"

��� should be 1:32); Jersey City kit, 4030 (same error)

Duncan Bay, British Columbia, floatbridge, 1438

Dunlap, David (NY Times writer), 1438, 3524

Dunn, see M.I.Dunn

Dupont (industry served by carfloat), 2921

 

Dupont, Aaron, 3308, 3316

Duwamish River, 3003

van Dyck, Paul, mention of article by, 3826

van Dyke, Donald, 2308

 

[E]

E.R. McCharles (Elburne BC), 1305

Eagleton, Pete, 2617

Eakins, Norman, 2604

Early carferrying, see Carferries, earliest

Eastern Car Works, (HO fittings), 2721

Eastern Shore Railroad, 1403

Eastern Towboat (Boston), 4029

Eckman, Dave, 1424, 1426

Edgewater, NJ, 909, 910, 1009, 1109, 2102

Edson, William, 1436 Egregious Steamboat Journal (ESJ), 1602, 1802

Edward T. Jeffrey (WP ferry), 2516

Ehrlen, Gerald, 1108, 1207, 1208, 1414

Eisen, Jack, 1020

Elberta, MI, see Boat Landing

Electric bridges, 1311

Electric float bridge, 1609

Elizabethport shipyard, see New Jersey Dry Dock

Elliott, 914, 1019, 1021, 1023, 1102, 1103, 1105, 1113, 1114, 1117, 1202

Elwood, 909

Emmanuel, Edward (worked for Foss Tug), 3029

EMD, 914, 917, 1113

Engine room signals, 2811‑12

Engine exhaust, stick lighter, 2423

English carferry, 4026

Ennis, Dwight, 3121

Enrollment information for vessels, seeking, 2204

Ente, Bernie, 1019, 3022

Equipment Diagram Database, 1618

ER (car barge), 2347

Erie 40' Fowler clone boxcars, 1418

Erie Railroad Magazine, marine‑related articles, 2121; placed on Internet 3526

Erie RR, 1007, 1012, 1114, 1116, 1117, 1118, 1021, 1202, 1203, 1207, 1213,

�� 1214

Erie RR 28th St. Terminal (Man.), 3913‑3921; 4022 (more info)

Erie RR, Jersey City floatbridges, 1515

Erie RR, Jersey City floatbridge models, see Held, Jay

Erie RR, first lighterage at NY, 2107

Erie RR carfloat numbers, their meaning: 2020� (on postwar Erie, last 2 digits showed year built)

Erie RR Chicago operation, 2024, 2354

Erie RR Marine Department operations, ref. to article in Diamond, 2345, 2430

Erie RR Marine Repair Shop, 2121, 3012

Erie RR, through freight schedules, 3917

Erie‑Lackawanna RR, 1012

ERRATA: see section II above

Errata for Where Rails Meet the Sea, "official tabulation", 2825

Escanaba & Lake Superior carferry operations, news, 2022, 2116, 2229

Esquimalt, 914

Eureka (ex‑carferry), 1115

Exhaust, stick lighter, 2423

Extant float bridges, see Float Bridges, extant

Euro 66 locos delivered, see General Motors of Canada

European carferries (train ferries), 1434, 2117‑2118, 3426‑27 (w. biblio.); 4126 (ref. to description of modern ones), 4129

�� ‑ see also Train ferries: Britain to France

Evans, Oliver, 4004

Evansville Traction Co. carferry, 3420‑3424

Ewen, Bill, photo collection, 3126; 3423

Express (New Haven RR carferry), 2122

 

[F]

F.A. Johnson (N&W tug), 2604, 3617

Fabrizi, Carl, 1953, 2430

Fahey's Victory Edition, 1109

Fahren‑Ferries, 910, 1108

Fair, James R., 2026, 2343

Fairbanks, 917, 1005

Fairport Harbor, OH, on B&O, 2340

Farnsworth, Kathy, 1002, 1102, 1202

Farnsworth, Richard C., 3102

Favorite, 1004, 1021

Feather River (WP ferry), 2516‑17

"Feathering" paddle wheel, 2340

Featherstone Lighthouse Route, 3603

FEC, 905

Federal Shipbuilding (should be New York Shipbuilding), 902

Fell's Point terminal, 918, 1522

Fenders, 1423

Fenders, Tugboat rope (esp. modeling), 2926

Fender planks, 2008

Fernando Gorges, 1519

Ferries, Das Fahrschiffartsmagazin, German magazine devoted to ferries, 3623

Ferro‑Sur RR, rail‑marine in Mexico, 3217

Ferrovia Centro‑Atlantica (Brazilian), by Sims, 4019

Ferry slips (West Coast term), see carferry slips

Ferryboats, see passenger

FEU, 3204, 3304

Feuge, Reuben, 1108, 1207, 1322, 1414, 1433

FGEX, 1002 (see also Fruit)

Fiddle Yard: see Staging

Filston, LA, incline, 2343

Finances (RMIG), 1302

Fine Scale Miniatures, model of pile driver, 2618, 2833 (rev. in MR)

Finland, 908

"Fireboats in Action" (NY) video, 2619

First‑person accounts of rail marine work:

��� Bernard Sheehan on DL&W, 1958; Buckelew at Locust Point, 1945; Terpenning

��� uncle on DL&W tug, 2834; James Wilson (Pacific northwest), 4028; see also Baxter, Ray; Chavez, Art, Hanifan, Ted; Lipani, Thomas; Pearce, Dave

Fischer, Robert F., 2343 Fishkill Landing, 1437

Fisher, Eric,� 3607

Flagg, T., 1002, 1006, 1019, 1116, 1202, 1212, 1310, 1321, 1408, 1415, 1426, 1433, 1510, 1521, 1523, 1524, 1621‑22, 1623, 1720, 1924, 1953, 2123, 2351, 2602, 2603, 3013, 3120 (review of his book), 3224 (his comment on his book), 3503 (NY Central tug fleet article), 3607 (followup); 3621 (on economics of rail‑marine); 3810, 3906, 3913‑3921, 3923, 4128

Flagler, 905

Flat‑car‑mounted, 1113

Float bridge removal, New York Dock RR (photo) 1413

 

Float Bridges ‑

��� Baltimore (B&O Canton) (pivoting apron type), 3208

��� Baltimore (B&O Locust Point), 3207‑3209

��� Baltimore (PRR), 3212‑3213

��� Baltimore (WM Port Covington), 3213

��� Cape Charles, 1404

��� Delaware River, Camden, 3321

��� Delaware River, Pigeon Point, 3227

��� Delaware River, Deepwater, 3321

��� Delaware River, see also Reading RR

��� Extant structures list, 2423; additions: 2620, 3226, 3319

��� Florida, Key West apron, 3224

��� Galveston, TX, 3312‑3313

��� LIRR see Long Island City float bridges, also Bay Ridge

��� Ludington (Pere Marquette), drawing, 2835

��� New York, evolution of the transfer bridge, 1212‑1218 (Part I), 1310‑1318 (Part II), 1408‑1412 (Part IIA), 1510‑1517 (Part III)

��� New York, IND subway, 207th St., 2621

��� New York, new floatbridges, at 65th St. Brooklyn, 2511, 3216

��� New York Port, tabulation of float bridges (Part I, NJ side), 4203‑06

��� Philadelphia (B&O), 2621 (photo), 3026, 3808

��� Puget Sound type, 1613, 3003‑3007

��� Reading ‑ see Pigeon Point

��� San Francisco Bay area ‑ style bridges, query, 2340

��� San Francisco float bridge at Pier 43, Fishermans Wharf, damaged, 2427; photo 2621, destroyed 2622; more news 2903

��� San Francisco, at China Basin, 3227, 3304, 3319

��� San Francisco, see also Southern Pacific; Western Pacific

��� Sausalito, at Marinship 3525

��� Sept‑Iles, Quebec, 3319

��� SIRT (St. George), 3826, 4231

Float bridges, surviving, see Float Bridges extant

Float bridge switchstand / throw lever, on bridge, photo, 2715

Float Bridge at West Norfolk, for Atlantic & Danville RR, dwgs. from Eng. News, 3418

Float bridge drawings: see series on float bridges at NY, in Transfers 11, 12, 13, and 14; also W. Norfolk above; B&O W. 26th St, Manhattan, plans 2819‑2822

Float bridge operations, comments on, Dave Pearce: 1443

Float bridge model photos: see DeVries, Held, Janofsky, Kalis, Lloyd, Nahodyl, Rossiter� ‑ see also 1524 on modeling transfer bridges; Danish floatbridge, 1443

Float bridge modeling in O gauge (Great Lakes apron type), mention of article, 3827

Float bridge, moving, from Jersey City to Staten Island, mention of article in Sentinel, 3826

Float Bridge, pivoting apron type, 3208

Float yards, 1517 (ref. to Kalis' article on LIRR operations), 2402‑2407

Float yards, modeling (see also Staging), 1621, 2342, 2407

Floating Grain Elevators, 2004, 2503, 2508, full article 4003‑4015 & covers; 4129 (illus. in equipment catalog); 4130 (in Russia)

Floatman, 1605

Florida East Coast Florida‑Havana service, 1418

Florida East Coast Ry car ferry services, book review, 2025

Florida East Coast Industries, 1436

Florida ‑ Havana car ferry, 2352, 3221, 3224

Florida (ex‑RR tug), former Brooklyn 3618; or former Jersey City 4029, 3929

FMC chlor‑alkali plant, 1306, 1309

Foley, Welch & Stewart, 1305

Fore River Plant, 1432

Foreign train ferries, see Train ferries, foreign

Forest, Richard D., 1618

Forest Street Slip, 3003

Forth (of Firth of Forth) carferry 3811

Foss Marine, 1022, 1112

Foss Tug and Barge, 1308, 2223, 3009

Foss barges in aerial view, 3005

Foster, George H., 1014, 1018, 2122, 2924, obit. 3403

Fournier, Arthur, 1112

Fowler boxcars, used by WIF&SS, 1418

Fox, Bill, 1520

Frankfort, 1115

Frank, Jerry, 1427

Franklin Sugar Co., Phil., 3803

Franz, Jon, 1518

Fraser River, 2223

Frazer, Alan, 1018, 1020, 1105, 1106, 1108, 1109, 1117, 1118, 1119, 1209, 1319, 1414, 1417, 1442, 1946, 2346, 3002, 3014, 3021, 4221, 4232 (his story)

Fredrickson, Capt. Arthur C., 3226

Freeboard, 1523

Freight forwarders, at B&O terminal in NYC, 2713

Freight Terminals and Trains, 2344

Fremont Tugboat Co., 2920

French, James B., 1511

Freytag, Dean, 2823

Frick, Henry, 1433, 1622, 1819, 2604, 3022

Friction piston, 1314, 1953

Frisco, 1021

Frog, 1004, 1103, 1205, 1215, 1216

Frog angle, carfloat trackage, 1425

Frog, No. 5 on carfloat, 1925

Frost, David, 1617

Fruit and produce pier, PRR, 2607

Fruit Growers Express, 1118

Fruitvale Hills (tanker), 1211

Fryant, John, 916, 1106, 2208‑2209, 2357; model of NYD Brooklyn, 2722; 3221 (cites his listing of plans for sale); 3929 (more recent source)

Fugitive Deckhand (book), 4223

Full Ahead Vol. I, sounds of New York Harbor in the 60s, 3927

Full Line, Full Away, 1303, 2221, 4028

Funny Girl (movie w. CNJ scenes), 4030, 4113

 

G]

Gadziala, Gary, 1411, 1412, 1413

Gallagher, David, 4031

Gallagher, John, 3216

Gallegos, Bob, 2342, 2823, 3206

Galloway, Ewing, 1002, 1102, 1116

Galveston, 914, 1206, 3308, 3310, 3311 (map)

Galveston carfloating, early 20th century, 3603‑3606

Galveston ‑ Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, BN "Protexa" carfloat service, 914, 1219, 3308‑3316 (full story, by Teichmoeller)

Galveston Wharves Commission, 1434

Gantry, 907, 918, 1004, 1117, 1204, 1213, 1217

Gantry‑assisted, 911

Gantry Plaza, 1438, 1516, 2617

Garabaldi (3‑deck Italian carferry), 2618, 4026, 4027 (photos)

Garner's Shipyard, Staten Island, 4127

Gasoline, 1008, 1204

Gauge boards, 1517, 1954

Gauntleted, 1004, 1117

GE C30

GE 44‑tonner, 1438

Geiger, Doug (Union Bay model railroad), 918, 1103, 1426, 1618

Geltzke, Charles H., Jr., 2230, 4231

Gelzer, Gary, 2614

General Electric, 1204

GE C30‑7 locos, shipment to Peru, 3925

GE oil‑electric engines at Bush Terminal, 3713, 3715

General Motors of Canada locomotives ("Class 66") delivered to Britain and other countries, 2431, 2623, 3219, 3523, 3606, 3718, 3824, 3926

Generator moved by B&O via carfloat, 4020

Generic carfloat design, 1419

Gentili, Kenneth L., 1437

George Askew of Tete Jaune Cache, BC, 1305

George T. Walker (carferry), 1804

Georges Alexandre Lebel (carferry, originally the Incan St.Laurent), 3204, 3228

Georgia, 906, 907, 910, 1108, 1209, 1210, 1416

German ‑ Scandinavia train ferry service, ref., 2922, 3219, 4129

German carferries, 3219

Gerritsen, Arnt, model of Ann Arbor RR, 3321 (ref. to article in RMJ); 4226 (ref. to MRP 2005)

Gerzewitz, Michael, 2210

Gilbert, Clare, 1219

Gilbert, Timothy, 2121

Gill, Philip (designer of floating grain elevators), 4006

Gimbal mount, 1311

Girard Point Grain Elevator, PRR, 2609

Girder rail trackwork 1113; 2834

Glaab, John, 3322

GLa, Glc, Glca (PRR hopper car classes), 1002

GLCF, 916

Gloucester, 1019

GMA (General Managers Association), 2009

GMA barges, 2315‑2321; feedback: 2425, another photo 2426

GMA B&O barge No. 452 house, 2723

GMA Barges, see also Covered Barge

GMA coal boat, 3121

GMA tugs, NY Port (Consolidation Class), 2922, 4221

Gmelin, Stephan, 910

Go‑Float (system of model carfloat staging), 1622, 1709, 1952� ‑ see also Staging

Goliath (WP steam tug), 1112, 1115, 1523, 2518

Gooseneck fitting, 2113

Gould, George Jay, 2515

Gouldsboro (sidewheel Mississippi carferry), 4128

Graham, Allan, author, 3825

Grain Traffic, 914, 1010, 1118, 2507, 4003‑4015 (at NY)

Grain at Port Costa (SP), 2336

Grand Rapids, 1435

Grand Trunk / GTW, 916, 2230, 3227

Granton‑Buntisland early carferry operation: see Clyde

Graveyards, vessel, 2510 (in Arthur Kill), 4232‑4236 (Shooter's Island)

Great Britain Rail Freight, see General Motors of Canada

Great Lakes aprons, 2117

Great Laks bibliography by Vermande, on website, 4227

Great Lakes carferry operations: methods of tie‑down, etc. 3610‑3616; 3813‑3815

Great Lakes Car Ferries (Hilton book), 1503‑1505, 3125 ‑ to be reprinted, 3425, 3926 ‑ to be reprinted with corrections

Great Lakes Car Ferries Reconsidered ‑ Addendum, by George Hilton, 1612

Great Lakes Car Ferries, video review, 2118, 3221

Great Lakes Car Ferries‑‑The End, 1434, 1521

Great lakes Car Ferries ‑ see also St. Ignace, Milwaukee

Great Lakes Car Ferries ‑ rev. of book Spirit of the Lakes, 4123

Great Lakes Historical Society (GLHS) Museum, 1717, 1718, 2227

Great Lakes Historical Society drawings on CD‑ROM, 2619

Great Lakes iron ore docks, 2354, 3220

Great Lakes operations websites, 3624

Great Lakes, Wooden Steamers On, book review, 3825

Great Northern Railway, 1303, 3220

Great Northern car barge slip, Vancouver, 2924, 3029

Green Bay and Western Boat Train, 1442

Greenberg, William, 1818, 2343, 2344, 3224 (extensive letter on CNJ steam lighters)

Greene, Dennis, Naval Historian, 1109, 1619, 1621, 2121, 3225

Greenstein, Joe, 2345, 2922

Greenville, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1113, 1114, 1118, 1622, 2115, 2123

"The Greenville Bypass", article in Keystone, 2230

Greenville floatbridges, 1311‑14 (in NY FB I), 1521, 2115, 2229, 2352, 4205

Greenville Terminal (PRR), 2404 (2 maps, float yard operations), 2606 (description from 1927 PRR publicity article; also photos from a 1949 brochure on cover 2401), 4226 (ref. to news article by Gomez)

Greenway Products (maker of HO waterfront details), 3525

Greenwich Yard, Philadelphia, PA, on PRR, 2350‑2351

Greenwich Coal Dumper, PRR, 2608‑2609

Gregory J. Bush, ex‑Hummacona, 2518

Greiger, Weldon, 1954

"Gridiron" type of apron, 3006

Griffiths, Tom, 4231

Grove, Don, retired CN brakeman, 2615

Grupo, 914

Grzywacz, Bob, 2617, 2926, 3126

Guatemala, 908

Guard braces, 2208

Guidelines for contributors, 1324

Gulash, Emery, 2342

Gulf of Mexico, rail‑marine service, 3217, 3308‑3316

Gulf of Mexico, see also Mexico

Guntersville, 1519

Gulf Titan (Alaska tug), 2920, 3219, 3319

Gurin, Doug, 1418, 1437, 2342

Gutgsell, Greg, 3235, 3720

 

[H]

Hacendados, 1323

HAER surveys, 4232

Haggerty, Betsy, 1437

Haida Transporter (train ferry), 2116, 2345

Hainan Strait carferry in China, ref. to article by Van Dyck, 3826

Hallen, Leo, 1020, 1114

Hallenbook, 1020, 1114

Hamilton, Art, 1951, 2425

Hammondsport, USS, 906, 909, 910, 1109, 1111

Hampton Roads area rail‑marine, brief overview & biblio., 3410‑11

� see also: New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk carferry; Chesapeake Bay

Handling car floats, 1611

Handling barges w. tug, including handling lines in making a tow, 3820

Hanley, Max, 2604

Hanifan, Ted, 4024

Hansen, Ray, model of BC carfloating, 2616

Harbor and Ocean Maritime Accessories HO models, 2349, 2511, 2618

Harbor Belt Line (Port of Los Angeles), mentions article on, 3525

Harbor Models, catalog available (1:95 and 1:48), 2923

Harbor Models, 1/48 & 1/96 models, analysis of their prototypes, 3125‑26

Harbour Intermodal, 2805, 2913

Harlan, George, 1617

Harlan and Hollingsworth, 1014, 1021�

Harlem River Terminals, 1436, 4207‑4216 (LV RR terminal)

Harlem Transfer, 1518

Harrisburg (2), PRR diesel tug, later disposition: became Louisiana for Crescent Towing Co. (3618)

Harrison, Richard, 910, 1004, 1012

Harry A. Merlo (400' railcar barge), 1023, 2116, 2313, 3022, 3319

Harsimus Cove (PRR Jersey City facility), 1313, 1516, 2523 (photo) 2606, 2624 (photo), 2807‑2810 (photo and Port Series maps), 4205 (float bridges)

Hart, Bob Sr., 1604, 1605

Harwood, Herbert, 1602, 2703, 3209

Harwood, Herbert, "New York Harbor Railroading in the 1950s and 1960s", pictorial article in Railroad History (Spring 2002), summarized 3621

Hastings (Santa Fe ex‑Army tug), 4225

Hatch location, on refrigerator barges, 3910

Haupt, Herman, 3121 (Civil War carfloats)

Havana, Cuba, 905

Hawkins Point, see Capmoore

Hawser, 1113, 1116, 1118

Hay‑De, ex NYC #13 tug, 3525, 3607, 3617, 3901‑3902, 4127

Hazardous cargoes, 1023

Hazelton (LV tug, ON 259281), 3522, 3717, 3726, 3922, 4127, 4222

Heavy lift/loads events, 1520, 3305‑3307, 3520, 4020

Heavy lift ships, 2805, 3022, 3519

Hebert, Brian, 2341

Height of tug pilothouses, see Pilothouses

Heine, Frank (editor of Ferries), 3623

Heiss, Ralph, host of a rail‑marine listserv, 3526; 3928; presentation, 4025; 4207‑4216 (LV RR Bronx Terminal)

Held, Jay, 2115, 2121; photo of Erie floatbridge model 2615; more info 3929

Helena, Arkansas, 1802

Helena‑Trotter's Point Car Ferry, Pelican, 1804, 1934

Henderson, Byron, 4226

Henderson, Evansville Traction Co. carferry, 3420‑3424, 3619, 3720

Henry Brewerton (B&O tug), 2923

Hepburn, Pamela, 1119, 1435, 1437, 1443, 3924, 4127

Hercules (WP steam tug), 1112, 1115, 2518, 2522

Hercules: former Roy B. White: see under latter name

Heroes of Telemark (movie with Norwegian rail‑marine), 3424

Hi‑cube, 908

Hi‑Iron, 915, 1021, 1113, 1114

Hiawatha Navy, 2011, 3029

Hiawatha Navy: The Fleet, 2328, see also 2424

"Hidden Harbor" cruises, 4025

High pilothouse, 1523

Hilton, George, 903, 916, 1503‑1505, 1521, 1623, 1819, 2346, 3028, 3926

Hilton, George, Great Lakes Car Ferries Reconsidered ‑ Addendum, 1612

Hilton, George, rev. of C&O Jumbo Car Ferry Project, 2410, correction 2603;

Hirsimaki, Eric, 2339, 2340

Historic Journeys by Rail ‑ see Central RR of NJ

Hitzeman, John� (designer of AMB cov. barge kit), 4227

Hoboken, Erie tug (later Eric McAllister), 3922

Hoboken History ‑ Ships of Hoboken, marine history ‑ 2832

Hoboken Piers, 1010

Hoboken Manufacturers RR / Hoboken Shore Road, 906, 909, 1319, 4222

Hoboken Shore Railroad track plan (mislabeled Weehawken), 2409

Hoboken Terminal of Seatrain, 906, 907, 908, 918, 920, 1109, 1319

Hodges, Peter, 1927

Hog posts, 1303

Hoister, 2108

Hold barges, 2003, 2503‑2510; 2618 (drawing), 3127‑3128 (photos at Port Reading)

Holden, Jim, 1402, 1418, 1419, 1420, 1623, 3206, 3214

Hole, Doug, diorama builder, ore dock & "train barge", 1945, 2104, 2117, 2346

Holley, Noel, 2425, 3002, 3003‑3010, 3124

Holt, Pliny, 2347

Holtzinger, Casey,� 1018

Hopper Cars, 1002, 1003, 1009, 1019, 1114, 1118, 1219

Hopper, Sam, 1114, 1413, 1414, 1415, 1435, 1436, 1519, 1602, 1617, 1618, 1619, 1622, 1709, 1716, 1718, 1933, 2118, 2352, 2511 (obit)

Hopper, Sam, logo on his envelope, 1522

Hopper barges, modeling 2511

Hornell, Erie tug (later Virginia), 3922

Hornell (self‑propelled lighter), 3012, 3104, 3317 (drawing)

Horse cars in New York (floated to B&O) 2723

Hospital ward car, 1508

Hourglass shape trackage (on carfloats), 1424

Housatonic, 1014, 1018

House post, 2210

House, on self‑propelled lighters, 3013

Houser, Charles, photo collection, 3115

Howard E. Simpson, B&O tug, 3922

Howe Sound, 1302, 1303, 1309

Howe truss float bridges, 1118, 1205, 1213‑1218, 1311, 2715

Howe truss float bridge (Philadelphia), 3026

Howell‑North Books, 1503

Howland Hook marine terminal, 1435

Hudson (Floating grain elevator), 4009‑4010

Hudson Fisheries Trust, 3108

"Hudson River Ferries" video, 2619

Hudson River reserve fleet, see Liberty ships

Hudson River transfer steamer, 1436

Hudson River Valley Barge Museum, 3925

Hudson Waterfront Museum, 1010‑1011, 2210, 2213

Hughes 280, 1404

Hughes Towing, 1619

Hulett unloader, photos: 2350; book: 2720

Hulett status and preservation, 3618

Hulett Unloader videos, reviews, 2026

Hull construction, West Coast wooden barges, 2347

Hultz, Ed, 2923

Humaconna (WP steam tug), 2518

Hungry Wolf, Adolph, 1308

Huntsville Branch ferry service, 1519

Huntsville, 1440, 1519

Huron (carferry), 3824

Huron, Port, 1219

Huron‑Sarnia, 1115

Hvalpsund (Danish carferry), 4029

Hydraulic jack on floatbridge, 1117, 1217, 1607, 1609, 2322

Hynes, Tom, 3525 (adding radio control to tug kit)

 

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ICC, 906, 907, 908, 1010, 1011

Ice‑truck, 1118

Ice‑breaking carferries, 3203

Idler cars (see also Reacher Cars), 917, 1003, 1217, 1218, 1607, 1819, 4217‑4219 (pictorial)

Illinois Central, 2116

Illinois Central System, Trotter's Point carferry, 1804, 1942, 2002, 2028

Incan Marine (joint venture of CP Rail and Inchcape Group), 3205

Incan St. Laurent (carferry), 3204‑3205

Incan Superior (Carferry, originally in Thunder Bay ‑ Duluth/Superior service), 914, 1115, 1435, 1442, 2024, 2118, 2614, 3026, 3109, 3204‑3205 (good correction information),

Incline / cradle systems for carferries, western rivers, 1942, 2120, 3422

��� Details of Western Rivers Inclines, reprinted from Tratman, 1940‑43

��� Ohio River crossing of Evansville Traction, w. cradle, 3423

Inclines, Canadian lakes, 2020

Independence (covered barge), 3923

Independence Seaport Museum Library, info on holdings & access, 3115; problems, 4025

Indianapolis, PRR diesel tug, became Ned Ferry, 4029; conversoin to Friedrichs 4102, 4121ff, & 4132

Information sources, marine history (MVUS, etc.), 2202, 2204, 2219

Ingersol‑Rand, oil‑electric engines in Bush locos, 3713, 3715

Ingolds, Ronnie, 2111

Inset wooden side fenders, 1604

Interchange floats, 1604

Interchange paperwork, 1317

Interchange via carfloats at NY, which tugs did what, 2021

Intermodal Terminal model, 2345

International carferries, see Foreign

International Elevating Co., 4006

International Shipholding, contemporary operator, see Mobile

Internet see Websites

Intrepid (BEDT tug), photo of model, 2926

Invention & Technology, magazine, article on diesel tugs, 3522

Invisible New York (rev.), 2832

Iowa Iron Works, shipyard, 1804

Iris (British WW II conversion of LNE carferries), 2618

Iron Shipwright (model company), 3122

Irkutsk (Siberian carferry), 2616

Irony Workers, 4031

Irving T. Bush (Bush tug), 3713

Isla Del Sol, railcar barge (in Gulf of Mexico, pix), 3308

Island Tug and Barge, 1308

Island Tug and Barge Company, 1305

Isolated terminals, 1603

Italian carferries, 2920, 2922, 4026‑27

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J. F. Day (carferry), 1804

Jacks and tie‑downs, 1117, 1217, 1504, 3125, 3610‑3615, 3811‑3816

Jacksons Wharf, PRR (Baltimore), 2610

Jacobson Shipyard, 917, 1106, 1107, 1720, 3216

Jaffee, Walter W., 1112

James River Reserve Fleet, 1211

James Witte, (former CNJ tug Liberty), 1435

James Y. Lockwood (sternwheel towboat), 2346

James, Sam, 1323, 1403, 1434, 1435, 1437, 1438, 1440, 1519, 1521, 1619, 1622, 1716, 1720, 2342, 2343, 2345, 2346, 2352, 2604, 2616, 2723, 2803, 2832, 3216, 3305, 3521, 3717, 4113

Japan, train ferries, 4226

Janofsky, Elliott, 1019, 1021, 1103, 1113, 1114, 1117, 1419, 1523

Janofsky, Elliot, photo of model of LV float bridge, 3724

Jay Street Connecting Railway, track plan, 2409

Jensen, Vickie, 1520 Jersey Central, see CNJ RR

Jersey City (ii) (PRR tug), 1819, 2220, 3523; also ref. to photo in Chase article, 3622

Jersey City, aerial photo, 4007

"Jersey Greenbacks", 2718

Joe Greenstein Railroad Photography, S.I., 2228

John Bertram (carferry), 1804

John A. Dialogue & Sons, Camden, NJ, shipbuilder, 2518

John K. Cowan (B&O steam tug), 3028

John W. Garrett (B&O carferry), 3208, 3212

Johnson, D. Wallace, 1520

Johnson, Eads (vessel designer), 3317

Johnson, Eric, 1309

Johnson, F.A. (tug), 2604

Johnson, Harry J., 1323

Johnsons Marine Manual, 3021

Jones, Don, citing article on modeling water, 3525

Jones, Sam, 1434, 2926

Joseph, Arnold, 3216 (death notice)

Joseph P. Meseck, 1322

Joseph R. Parrott, 1442

Joseph Walker, (sidewheel transfer boat), 2346

Julia C. Moran, see Wilkes‑Barre

Jumbo ships, hauling locos, see General Motors of Canada

Juno (SP tug), 4030

Justine Foss, 1520

J.W.Phipps (tug), 1005

 

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Kaczar, Ken, 3718

Kalais, Nick, personal website, with info on rail‑marine, 3928:

��� www.trainsarefun/lirrmb/lirrmb.htm

Kalis, Nick, 912, 1012, 1021, 1115, 1436, 1443, 1618, 1623, 1819, 3115, 3927

Kalis' Long Island City Floatbridge model, photo, (built by Fabrizi) 2120

Kanne, Ken, 1021, 2619

Karl Carstens, 1321

Karl Koch Erecting Co., 2115

Kaslo and Slocan Railway, 1440

Keansburg, 1114

Keddie, Arthur, 2515

Keelsons, 2007

"Keeping appointments with convoys", 1437

Kempinski, Bernard, 2345, 3121, 3425, 3705, 3705, 3721

Kennebec River, 1519

Kennelly, Greg, 1305, 1433

Kent Avenue Yard, Brooklyn (photo of tug there), 3931

Ketchikan Pulp Mill (served by carfloat), 914, 1023, 1112, 2922

Kevels, 1426

Keystone, 2122

Keystone possibly from Pennsy tug, 4023

Kindervatter, Debra, 1219

King, John 3926

"Kings Line" carferry route betw. Germany and Sweden, 3426

Kirchoff, Fred, letter, 2423

Kirkland, Ed, 3923

Klett, Donald, 2120, 3026 (deceased)

Kline, Ben, 1506

Kline, Larry, 1620

Knickerbocker Ice Co., NYC, 912

Knotts, Stan, 1502, 1602, 1623, 3723

Knudshoved (Danish carferry), 2623

Kodiak (railcar barge), 2116

Kodiak (railcar barge converted to a tug), 2352, 2604

Koenig, John, tug model photos, 2615; BEDT tug model, 2926; two more from Walthers kits, 3528; Bush Terminal loco plans, 3929

Koenig, John, 3317

Koester, Tony, 2019

Kohnen, John, 2923

Kootenay, West (CP Rail), 1219

Kootenay Lake, 1716

Kort nozzle, 3526

Kozempel, Frank, 3622

Kramer, Frederick, 1436

Krattinger, John P., 1012

Krause, Joe Jr., 1435

Krebs, Robert, 1219

Krieger, Mike, 2355, 2429, 2616, 2825

Kujawa, Roger, 2926, see also 3002, 3223 (internet discussion group)

Kunkle, Bob, 3626 (photos on Detroit River)

Kusner, George, 2340

 

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Labash, Tom, photo of tug, 3824

Lackawanna tug, model of, 1818

Lady Cynthia, 1303

Lagunitas (1903 sternwheel carferry), 1112, 1617, 2205, 2921, 3121 (model)

Lake Baikal carferry operation (Siberian carferry), 2616, 2916‑2919, 3203

Lake Champlain carferry, 2352

Lake Michigan Car Ferries by Zimmerman, review, 916

Lake Michigan carferry in winter, on video, 2350

Lake Michigan carferries, methods of bracing rail cars on board, 3610‑3616

Lake Ontario rail ferries, 1418, 2026, 4125

Lake Pontchartrain, 1014

Lake Superior railcar barges, 2116 Lakehurst, 906, 910, 1108, 1209

Lake Titicaca carferry Manco Capac, 2833; 3023; 3925

Lake Titicaca Train Ferry trip, with photos, 3023‑3025

Land bridge, 1415

Landing a pair of floats, 1611

Landing Ship, British WW II conversion of LNE carferries, 2618

Lane, Tom, 1317, 2115

Lang, Steve, 1022, 1106, 1112, 1219, 1414, 1426, 1520, 1521, 1622, 2355, 2623, 3112, 3302, 4028

Lang, Steve, Tugboat Photos & Research address, 2341

Langdon, Jervis, 1106

Lansdowne (Detroit River sidewheel carferry), 1622, 2428, 2802, 2921, 3027, 3522

Lapel pins, enameld, with rr tugs, 3624

Lapland, 1208

Larsen, Ken (RMIG webmaster), 3002

Larson, Harold, 1416

Las Plumas (WP carferry), 2518, 2519

Laserkit, see American Model Builders

Latin American Rail‑Marine Argentine Rail Ferry, 4220

Launching B&O carfloats (built Staten Island), 3803‑3809

Launching DL&W GMA covered barge, 2219

Lawson, Patrick, 2345

Layout Design News, 1520

Layout plan, for industrial dock railroad, 1929

LBP (Length Between Posts), generally same as registered length, see Length

LCL via Carfloat, 2121

LCL Corp. cement containers, 3328

Leahy, Henry, 1002

Lee, Vincent, 3625 (photos of CNJ float bridge mishap); 3913‑3921, 4025

Lehigh (LV tug, ON 260467), 3522, 3726

Lehigh (Reading then B&O tug), 1819, 3209, 3929

Lehigh Valley RR, 1009, 1012, 1117, 1118, 1203, 1204, 1206, 1515, 2107, 2218, 2508, 3121, 3625 (in 1894)

Lehigh Valley barges, 2424; 4023

Lehigh Valley RR Bronx (Harlem River) Terminal, 4207‑4216

Lehigh Valley RR carfloats, 4221 (including WW II service)

Lehigh Valley RR coal boat, drawing, 2512

Lehigh Valley RR diesel tugs, 3726; 4103; 4221

The Lehigh Valley Railroad East of Mauch Chunk, 2343

Lehigh Valley RR grain traffic to Brooklyn Brewery via carfloat, 4109

Lehigh Valley RR ‑ Great Lakes fleet, 2119

Lehigh Valley RR ‑ hawser‑towing, 1118

Lehigh Valley RR Jersey City terminal (Johnston Ave/Morris Basin): 4204 (float bridges)

Lehigh Valley RR marine drawings available, 2351, 2423 (description)

Lehigh Valley RR Pier Stations, 1441

Lehigh Valley RR's West 27th Street Yard, 1203, 1220, 1433

Lehigh Valley No. 36 (covered barge), photo, 2424

Lehigh Valley No. 79 (preserved wooden covered barge), 2005, 2210, 2213, 3216, 3522, 3525, 3617, 3905‑3910 (story of 2002 renovation); 3911‑3912 (plans), 4022

Lehigh Valley No. 462 (stick lighter) (incl. plans), 2111, addendum and corrections, 2225‑2226, 2423

Lehigh Valley Nos. 469 & 478, 2225

Leilich, George, 1424, 1438

Leilich, George, pictorial book: Western Maryland Trackside, text by Jeremy Plant, Morning Sun, rev. by J. Teichmoeller, 3620

Length of carfloats, 1420

Length, registered vs. overall (LOA), 1109, 2225, 2341, 3505 (most complete discussion)

Leviathan (Scottish sidewheel carferry), 3811

Levin, Richard, 2228‑29, 2339

Lewis, Bob, 1005, 1118, 1402, 1403, 3115

Lewis, Edward, 1717

Liberty (CNJ tug), 1005, 1435

Liberty Ship colliers, 2825, 2925, 3324

Liberty ships in Hudson River reserve fleet, 4113 (used for grain storage)

L.I.C., see Long Island City

Lifschultz Freight Forwarders, 3918

"Light Duty Floatbridges" ‑ article relating to Walthers kit, in Model RailroadING, Oct./Nov. 1999, p. 48‑50

Lighter, 2107

Lighter, see also Self‑propelled Lighters

Lighters, work of loading them, on DL&W, 1958

Lighterage, 1006, 2107, 2210

Lights displayed at night by boats, 2622, 2723

Lionel model of railroad tug, 3623, 3721 (pic), 4230 (on Rossiter layout)

Lindberg diesel tug kit, with radio control, 3525

Liner trade, 1507

Lines, towing, 1609

Lines, bitts, etc. (Pearce) 3818‑22

Link 100 (ex‑WP carferry), 2520

Lipani, Thomas E., 4023

Lipiarski, Paul, 1617, 1622, 2121, 2620, 2718, 2925, 3026

LIRR see Long Island RR

Little Creek, VA (carfloat terminal), 1117, 2347

Little Hank (children's book), 3719

Little Joes, 1509

Little Kanawha River Crossing, carferry, 3926

Little Rock (river transfer terminal), 3121

Live load, 1310

Live load reaction, 1514

Live‑load Counterweight system, 1313, 2327‑28

Liveries, see under "Colors" or individual railroad

Livestock handling, 1115

Living on barges, 4130

Lloyd, Howard, 1524

Lloyd, Howard, MR article on rail‑marine modeling, review, 4224

Lloyd, Howard, photo of his Long Island City Floatbridge model, 2120

Lloyd, Howard, Arvern Bay Terminal RR, 2921

Lloyd's Confidential Index, 1211

LMRC, 916

LOA, see Length

Loading carfloats, 1608

Loading ships, see Shipments, Interesting; also Married fall

Loads, heavy, via flatcar on carfloat, 1520

Locomotive Workshop brass tug model, 1943

Locomotives on barges, 1523

Locomotives, used on offline terminals: B&O, 2718

Locomotives, loading onto ships, see Shipments, Interesting

Locust Point, 918, 1945, 3207‑3209

Locust Point‑Fells Pt. shuttle, 1423

Lofter (name for a bucket elevator), 4009

Long Island City float bridges 1516, 1618 (photo)

Long Island City float bridges, preserved as "Gantry Plaza Park", 2617, 2621 (photo), 3125

Long Island City floatyard, 912, 1115, 1118, 1438

Long Island RR (LIRR), 912, 1002, 1012, 1115, 1117, 1219, 1510, 1618

Long Island RR, see also Bay Ridge

Long Island RR, pictorial book on, 3 (?) rail‑marine photos, 4124

Long Island RR calendars photos, 2351

Long Island RR Ferryboat Rockaway, 1930, 2106

Long Island RR freight statistics and operations (Weinstein), 1956

Long Island RR floatbridge switch engines, C51 class, mention of Fabrizi article in Keystone, 2430�

Long Island RR marine operations, modeling (ref. to article), 2923

Long Island RR tugboat modeling, 3721

Longshoreman vs. stevedore, 1418

Lopate, Philip, 4028

Losse, Bob, 3126

Louisiana, 907, 910, 914, 1014, 1016, 1102, 1108, 1209

Louisiana, Crescent Towing tug, formerly Harrisburg, 3523, 3618 (photos)

Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad, 2343

Louisiana Railway & Navigation Co. carferry operation on Miss., 2343, 3108

Louisiana‑Pacific, 1023, 1112

Loyalhanna Dockyard and Taubman Plans, 4221

LST, 906, 914

LSTs as car ferries, 3606

LT class steam tugs (ex‑Army), 1406, 3122 (model in 1:350 scale); 4125, 4225 (ref. to article on)

Lucas Vineyard, founded by ex‑tug captain, 4131

Ludington, 1112, 2352, 3627

Ludington, float bridge, 2802 and 2835

Ludington Carferries, book review, 2229

Ludington Carferry, video review, 2230

Ludington carferries, website, 2350

Ludwig, Daniel K., 1209

Ludwig‑style funnel, 1210

Lumber, 1022, 1102, 1113

Lustig, Dave, 2922

LV RR see Lehigh Valley RR

Lynden, Inc., 3218

Lynden Transfer (RoRo to Alaska), 3029

 

[M]

MacElwee, R., 3021

Mack, 1204, 1206

Mackinac, 916

Madison, 1435, 2230

MacGregor, Bruce, 2203

Maerklin Magazine, Z scale carferry, 1622

"Main Boats", NY Central, 3509

Main bitts, 1610

Maine Central Railroad, 1519

Maineport Towboat (Belfast, ME), 1112

Malinoski, Bob, 1021

Mallery, A.H., 1510, 1517, 2324

Mallery, Paul, 1011, 1103, 1119, 1218, 1511, 1517

Mamquam River, 1309

Manco Capac (Lake Titicaca carferry): in video, 2833; 3022

Mandeville, 1014

Manistique, MI, slip, 2117

Manistique & Lake Superior Ry. (had carferry), 4124 (book mention)

Manitowoc Maritime Museum, see Wisconsin Maritime

Manitowoc terminal of C&NW, 1950

Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, 1112, 1503, 2346, 3717

Manitowoc (Wabash carferry), 2803 (for sale), 3618 (sold)

Manlick, Don (former C&NW switchman at Manitowoc), 1951

Manning levels, on railroad tugs, 2423, 2622

Maps, Port Series, 2806

March, Capt. Ed, 2341

Margaret Yorke (tug), 2022

Marine borers, effect on wooden barge, 3905, 3906

Marine legs, for grain unloading, 2507

Marine Line Equipment, O&W Hist. Soc., 1020

Marine Model Co. (ad in 1949 MR), 3031; more info 3725 with photos: 3718, 3723

Marine surveys, 2005, 2009

Mariners Harbor, S.I., shipyard, 2111, 2113

Mariners Museum, 1108, 3002, 3724, 4026

Marinship Shipyard, (Sausalito, with float bridge), ref. to article on, 3525

Marion (Erie tug), now Pleon, 2228, 3301, 3302

Maritime Replicas, custom modelmaker, 3827

Maritime research sources, 2202

Maritime web sites, master list, 2923

Mark I Video: New York Harbor: Ferryboats, Car Floats and Liners, rev. 1114

Markle Models card models, 3623 (SD14 cargo vessel)

Marklin see Maerklin

Marquette, 1019

Marquette & Bessemer No. 2, probable carferry, 4024

Married Fall, description and virtues, 2107, 2804‑05

Martin, Ed, 2346

Martorano, Tom, 1002

Marvel shipyard, Newburgh NY, 3504 (NY Central tugs)

Maryland, 1436

Maryland Shipbuilding, 1211

Mason, 1115

Maspeth, 915, 1021, 1113

Massman, Emory, 2925, 3931

Master Builders Certificate, 2204 Mateer, Paul, 2341

Master Creations Div. of BTS, HO model kit for carfloat, 3028

Mastodon (SP barge), 4030

Matane ‑ Baie Comeau carferry route: see Baie Comeau

Matthews, Bob, 1119, 1443

Maxwell House Coffee Plant, 1319

Mayo Brothers Lumber Company, 1305

McCue, Harry, 1502; 3201 (cover etching); 3502

McDougall & Jenkins, 1303

McGuirk, Marty, rev. of Walthers marine models, 2617

McCluskey, John, 3625 (model float bridge); 3823; 3827; 3922, 3923, 4123 (rev. of CNJ book), 4217‑4219 (idler cars), 4227, 4228 (cocoa traffic)

McKelvey, William, 2505

McLaughlin, Michael, 1520, 1523, 1618, 1621, 1709, 1719, 1920, 2116, 2117, 2120, 2340, 2347, 2613, 2833, 2835, 3527 (plan for Alice St. yard)

McLean, Basil, modeler of Sacramento Northern, 3619

McLeod, Ross, 1433, 1619, 2350, 2511, 2603, 2623, 2722, 3204 (description of CP operations), 3222, 3224, 3228, 3304, 3724, 3824

McLintock, Harry, 1617

McMyler coal dumpers, 1009, 1716, 2502, 2505, 2804, 2814, 2903, 3126

Meany, Denis, 3924

Meany, Joseph, 1011

Melvin, George, 3721

Memphis, Southern tug and passenger steamer, 3401‑02

Merlo, Harry A. (barge), 1112

Merritt, 911, 1018, 1105

Merritt‑Chapman, 2614, 3305‑3307 (crane at work)

Meseck Towing Line and its tugs, 1319, 4130

Meseck Towing vs. the PRR, 1620

Meseck, Walter, 1219, 1319 (on Seatrain), 1320, 1414, 1438, 1617, 1620, 1720, 1919

Metz, Lance, 2024

Mexico, rail‑marine service to Mobile, AL, contemporary, see Mobile; see also New Orleans

Mexico to Galveston service, see Galveston; summary of modern rail‑marine service to and from U.S. by Teichmoeller, 3313 & 3316

Mexican carferry, postcard of 1920s, 3724

Michigan carferries, video for Michigan Transit Mus., brief rev., 3123

Michigan carferries, modeled in HO by Gerritsen, 4226 (ref. to articles)

Michigan Central railway sidewheel transfer ferry, 1434

Michigan Central Transfer (II), 1438

Michigan Railroad Car Ferries, 1617

Michigan Railroad History Conference for Oct. 2004, 4026

Micro‑Trains N scale freight car, 1951

Midbody modules, carfloat, 1423, 1924

Middleton, William, article "Rails Across the Hudson", in Railroad History (Spring 2002), summarized 3621

M.I.Dunn (C&O tug), 1005

Miles, Ted, 1112, 1115

Miller, William, New York Shipping, 2118, 3825

Miller, William, Hoboken History, 2832

Milster, Conrad, 1115; 3508 (photo by); 3002 (color photo of Blairstown); 3509; 3622 (photos in Tugs Everlasting article); 3925

Milwaukee (tug), 2016, 2223, 3002, 3009, 4129 (model), 4223

Milwaukee carferry see City of Milwaukee; 4024

Milwaukee, 1102, 1115

Milwaukee, Jones Island, 3002

Milwaukee Road, in Seattle, 3003‑3011; addenda 3030‑3031

Milwaukee carferry terminal, 2802

Milwaukee Railroader, 2833

Milwaukee Road, use of Squamish barge slip, 1308

Milwaukee Road's marine oriented activities, 1518, 2011, 2223, 2328, 2833, 3003

Minto (CP vessel), 3720

Misch, Jim, 1953, 1958, 2020, 2514

Misinformation, 1505

Mission San Diego (ship) 1211

Mission San Gabriel (ship), 1211

Mission San Luis Obispo (ship), 1211

Mississippi Central RR, 2346

Mississippi River carferries: 3718 ‑ see also name of railroad or landing (e.g. New Orleans)

Missouri Pacific RR, carferry at St. Louis, 1943

Missouri Pacific RR, Miss. River carferries, 2026

MKT, 1102

Mobile, AL, carferry services, 1021, 3325

Mobile, AL, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, contemporary rail‑marine service, using LASH vessels (International Shipholding) 3217‑3218, 3318, 3621‑22, 3927, 4128 & 4224 (relocation to New Orleans)

Mobile's Alabama State Docks: series in Model Railroading describing prototype and model of this waterfront, 2617

Model carfloat and carferries in switching contests, 2354, 2616, 4018

Model carfloating methods, see Carfloats, model

Model of carfloat, construction, 1103, 1710, 1812, 1904

Model covered barge: see American Model Builders

Model of sidewheel carferry, generic, built to operate in real water, article, 3220

Model of small generic sidewheel carferry, based on 1952 article by Bill Schopp, 4230

Model of FEC, with Key West float bridges, article, 3221

Model of generic river barge, 3121

Model of tug (Brooklyn), 1/32 scale, 2722

Model Expo single track "carferry", 2025; Jubilee carferry, 3122

Models of Solano, see Solano

Model transfer caboose/reacher car, Walthers (HO?) 4227

Model tug, from Walthers kit, see Walthers

Modeling contained‑apron transfer bridge, 1524

Modeling covered barges, 3720

Modeling rail‑marine terminals: see Bush Terminal; Kempinski; Rossiter; C&O Norfolk yard; Alameda Belt Line

Modeling Santa Fe's Alice St. yard, including plan: 3527

Modeling Windsor, Ontario, terminal on Detroit River, in HO, by Baustert, 4130‑4131

Modeling shell plating, 2346

Modeling water, ref. to article, 3525

Modeling waterfront areas, 2117

 

MODELS, commercial, & custom builders, see: American Model Builders, Bluejacket Ship Crafters, Bearco, Burt Industries, Coastal Forces, Crow River Products, Dumas, Eastern Car Works, Fine Scale Miniatures, Greenway, Harbor Models, Iron Shipwright, Lionel, Locomotive Workshop, Markle Models, Master Creations Div. fo BTS, Model Expo, Morse, Mr. Plaster, N Scale Architects, Resin Unlimited, Searails, Sea Port Model Works, Sheepscot, Spencer White, Sylvan, Voco, Walthers; Maritime Replicas

 

Models, discussion of manufacturing approaches, 2356

Models, discussion of paper tug models, 2720, history of them, 3426

Models, Card Models of European train ferries, 3426

Models, covered barge: 3720, 3722

Models, float bridges: see Float Bridge Model Photos

Models of hopper barges, 2511, 2618

Models of small tugs, for scenery, 3125

Models, marine, sources of parts for, 3727

Modern carfloating: see Rail Marine, Contemporary

Modularity in carfloat hulls, 1423

Mohr, E.R., 2117

Molded (or moulded) lines, ship, 2005

Molinari, Mike, 1119

Monon, 907

Monorail hoist, 1524

Montevallo Historical Press, 3926

Mooney, Jerry, 1523, 2614, 3719, 3725

Montesano, Rich, 2619

Mooremacpen, 1509

Moore, Jim, 918, 1002, 1019, 1115, 1308, 1433, 1438, 1518, 1521, 1612, 1616, 1719, 1920, 2011, 2023, 2116, 2221, 2328, 2511, 2514, 2517, 2622, 2835, 2923, 3928

Moosehead Lake, 1519

Moran, 1004, 1005, 1022, 1102, 1114, 1118, 1119

Morgan, David, 2222

Morgenstern, Wes, 2932

Mormacgulf, 1207

Morning Sun books, 2350

Morris Canal transfer basin, model of, 4128

Morrison, Andy, 4230

Morse, 917, 1005, 1950

Mostert, Dutch, tug paintings, 2231, 3002

Moving a floatbridge, from CNJ to B&O terminals, (mention of Sentinel article by John Teichmoeller) 3826

Moyer, Bill, 2357

Moyie, 1520

Mr. Plaster model of timber pier retaining wall, 915

M.T. No.1, etc. (Milwaukee Terminal RR car barges), 3007, 3009

M.T. No. 6 (train ferry converted to barge), 3011,

M.T. No. 6, accident that was also pictured in Krieger book, 3124

Mueller, Edward, 1418, 2025, 3318

Mueller, Edward, author of book on the Savannah Line, reviewed 3620

Muskegon, MI, carferry terminal, 2230, 3304

MVUS (Merchant Vessels of the U.S.), 910, 917, 1005, 1014, 1106, 1403, 1518, 1620, 2357, 4022

MVUS on line 2614

MVUS, as worth collecting, by JT, 2202

Mystery Photo, 911, 1018, 1105, 1308, 3627

Mystic River (movie), 4130

Mystic Seaport Archives, 4015

 

[N]

N&W see Norfolk & Western

N scale harbor module, 1441; see also (Stewart, Monroe)

N Scale for modeling rail marine, 1919

N Scale Architect, model of Barge Ontario, review 2618

N Scale Architect, N floatbridge model kit, 2923

N‑Trak East, Aug. 1996, 1919

Naborney, Bob, 1442

Nahodyl, John, drawing of stick lighter, 2112; drawing of steam lighter, 3016

Nahodyl, John, photo of his model rr and his cart, 1933

Nahodyl's Long Island City Floatbridge model, 2358

Nanaimo, BC, 914, 1616, 1717

Nandua (car barge), 1404, 2347

Naramata (CP Rail steam tug), 1520, 1951, 2619, 4026

Narrow Gauge railroads that did carfloating: see NPC, NWP, SPC

Narrow Gauge to the Redwoods, book, reprint, 2921

Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway (NC&StL), 1440, 1519

Nashville Bridge, 1519

Natchez, MI, 2346

Northeaster Maritime Historical Foundation, 4228

National Molasses (Baltimore), 3207

National Register, float bridges on, 3924

Nautical terminology:�� tonnage, 1407; Married Fall, 2107, 2804‑05;

Naval Historical Center, source of info, 3928

Naval Railway Battery Mark I, 1413

Navy: see U.S. Navy

NC&StL Tennessee River car ferry, 2346

Nehrich, John, 1102

Neotraziniy (tug), 914

Neptune (Seattle tug), 3009

Net tonnage, 1407

New England coastal lines, see also Central Vermont

New England Steamship, 3226

New England Terminal Co., 1014

New Grand Haven (WIF&SS carferry), 3204

New Haven RR, 907, 908, 917, 1002, 1012, 1014, 1017, 1018, 1102, 1106, 1107, 1116, 1117, 1118, 1202, 1213, 1311, 1432, 1433, 2122

New Haven RR (non‑New York): 2425

New Haven RR archives (at Univ. of CT), 3225

New Haven RR at Boston, marine operations, 3226

New Haven RR carferry Express, 2122

New Haven RR covered barges, 2219

New Haven RR Diesel Tugs, 917, 1106‑1107, 1518, 3113

New Haven RR float operations, 1617

New Haven RR Package Car Schedules, 2121

New Haven RR Rail‑marine research notes at Univ. of CT, 3225, 3527

New Haven RR, covered barge, 3527

New Haven RR: video review, 1946

New Jersey Dry Dock & Transportation, Elizabethport, NJ, 3608

New Jersey (tug, former Bumblebee), 4029

New London, 3121

New Orleans, carferries across Mississippi, 4128

New Orleans, crossing at Avondale, 1942, 4029

New Orleans and Lower Coast Railway, 1322

New Orleans Terminal, Seatrain, 1322

New Orleans, future terminal of relocated CG railway Mexico‑Mobile rail‑marine serviced, 3927, 4128, 4224

New York & Atlantic, 3403, 3524 (mention of article on)

New York carfloat service, 1618

New York Central (NYC RR), 1118, 1314, 1430, 1436, 1519, 1515, 2218

New York Central 60th St. Yard, Pier B (or C), 2123

New York Central 69th St. transfer bridge, 1512; possible adaptive reuse, 3524; 3624 (reference to NY Times article); 3924; 3927 (artists view)

New York Central floating equipment colors, 2218, 2307 (complete description, by Parisi), 2614 (lightning stripe)

New York Central Museum, Elkhart, IN, 3217

New York Central steam lighter roster, 3106

NYC No. 2, to be restored, 3124

NYC No. 3 & 9 (USRA steam tugs), 3507 (plan)

NYC No. 4 (steam lighter), 3014‑3015

NYC No. 5 (Self‑propelled lighter), 3020

NYC No. 10 (steam tug), 3504 (photo)

NYC No. 13 (tug, later Hay‑De ‑ see under that name), 3525, 3607 (rescue)

NYC No. 14 (steam lighter), 1946, 2346, 3014

NYC No. 16 (tug) (now on display at Cape Cod), 1703, 2834

NYC No. 18 (steam tug), 3504 photo

NYC No. 19 (tug), 2925

NYC No. 24 (earlier steam lighter), 3013

NYC No. 24 (later tug) in movie Funny Girl, 4113

NYC No. 25 (steam tug that was dieselized; briefly painted gray), 1518, 2614, 3508, 3510 (photo), 3511 (as TAMS design)

NYC No. 29 (steam lighter, later the "Aqua"), 3021, 3022

NYC No. 30 (steam tug), 2305‑2310, 2401, 2603, 2925

NYC No. 31 (steam tug), 3508 (photo), 3931 (1922 photo)

NYC No. 32 (steam tug), 4127, 4221

NYC No. 33 & 34 (diesel tugs), 2603 (info); 3510 (photo)

NYC No. 35 (Self‑propelled lighter), 3020

New York Central Depew, steam tug (ON 127508), 3503 (photo), name's origins 3512

New York Central tug roster and photos, 2415‑2420, addenda: 2603, 2613, 2925, 3124; alternate roster (in order built, listing engine etc.) 3506;

New York Central, tug types: 3503‑3512, followup on this with more photos in 3607‑3609

New York Central tug ‑ letter by Cryan re unusual mast rig, 2623

New York Central tugs, used to move crews from Barclay St., note from Terpenning, 2925

New York Central tugs: change from names to numbers in 1891, see 3124

New York Central West Side Freight Line, 1710

New York City float bridges, descriptions on website, 3928

New York City subway float bridge, 1436

New York Connecting Railroad Society, 1443, 2351, 3022

New York Cross Harbor (NYCH), news items: 1005, 1010, 1019, 1021, 1106, 1113, 1114, 1437, 1521, 1603, 1622, 1950, 2116, 2345, 2352, 2428, 2603, 2720, 2803, 2805, 2833, 2922, 3108; 3403 (NY City files to abandon), 3713 (origins), 3717, 3721 (ref. to NY Times article), 3823 & 3927 (adverse abandonment petition), 4125, 4229 (cocoa traffic)

New York Cross Harbor, report of talk by Crawford, 2228‑2229

New York Cross Harbor street trackage, 2229

New York Cross Harbor RR video, 915, 1113

NYD (New York Dock), 1106

New York Dock carfloats, 1428

New York Dock RR, Atlantic Terminal/Baltic Terminal, 1413, 1523 (note: photo in 1413 is in fact of Baltic Terminal, not Atlantic)

New York Dock RR, early tug colors, 2723

New York Dock tug Brooklyn model, 2722

New York, Empire City, 1920‑1945, mention of pictures in book, 4124

New York Harbor carfloat, 1420

New York Harbor: Ferryboats, Carfloats, and Liners video, rev. 1114

"New York Harbor Railroading in the 1950s and 1960s", pictorial article by Harwood, Herbert, in Railroad History (Spring 2002), summarized 3621

New York Harbor Railroads in Color, Vol. 1, book rev. by Joel Norman, 3120; addenda, 3224

New York Harbor Railroads in Color, Vol. 2, book description by author, 3524; review of book in RMC, 3719

New York Harbor Terminals, ref. to article in Semaphore, 2346

New York, New Haven & Hartford RR, see New Haven RR

New York, Ontario & Western RR, coal operations, 1020, 2505, 2508

New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk, 1013‑1017, 1403 (see also Hampton Roads)

New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk carferry Cape Charles, article by Teichmoeller in Summer 1993, Keystone, "Bay Barge Update" 1403‑1406, see also 3120, 3411

NYP&N Barge No.3, 1403

New York Regional RR, 1950, 2228, 2352, 2511 (transmodal yard)

New York Shipbuilding, 1020

New York Shipping, by Miller, reviews, 2118, 3825

New York tug engines, letters, 2613‑14

New York Tug Times (newsletter of PONY chap. of TES), 3122

NY, Susquehanna & Western RR, 1320

NY,NH&H: see New Haven

NYSME, 1021

New York tugboat engines, two cylinder, 2613

New Zealand carferry Aratere, 2617, 2913, 3110

Newark, 1915 CNJ tug, 2923

Newfoundland Ry., book review needed, 2118

Newport, 918, 1005, 1013

Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock, 1211

NH RR see New Haven RR

NHRHTA, 917

Niedermertl, Vaclav, 1016, 1017

Night Boat on the Potomac, review, 2344

Night work, lights for, 2622

No. 79 (covered barge), see Lehigh Valley No. 79

NMHF see Northeastern Maritime Historical Foundation

Noble, John (marine artist and photographer), 4012‑4013, 4113

Noble Maritime Collection, 4012

Nobska Boys, 1115

Noch coal barge model, 2511

Nord Pas‑de‑Calais (English channel carferry), 4026

Norfolk, 1013, 1014, 1018, 1109, 1209, 1520, 3410‑11

Norfolk, see also Hampton Roads

Norfolk (ACL tug), 3616

Norfolk, Brooke Ave. Yard (C&O, carfloat‑served), 3424

Norfolk piers, PRR, 2612

Norfolk and Western RR carferry, 2303

Norfolk & Western (ex‑Wabash) carfloat operations, Detroit, 1619, 3617, 3628

Norfolk Southern, 2511

Norfolk Southern rail barges for sale, 2803

Norfolk Tidewater Terminals, PRR, 2610‑2612

Norman, Joel, 1003, 1402, 1414, 1415, 1416, 1418, 1419, 1420, 1519, 1521, 1524, 1619, 3120

Norman, Joseph, 4228

Normandy Carfloats, 1433

Norsk Pacific, 2022

The North Arkansas Line: Story of the Missouri & North Arkansas RR, 2343

North Carolina Ports railway, book review, 2230

North Pacific Coast RR (NPC), 1112, 2203, 2921

North Vancouver barge slip, 2229

Northeast U.S. Steel Carfloat Architecture, by Teichmoeller, John, 1419‑1432 and 1924‑1925

Northland Navigation Co., Ltd., small coastal ships, 2345

Northwestern Pacific (NWP), 2204, 3525 (at Marinship)

Northwestern Pacific (NWP) Hist. Society, 2020

NWP, see also Lagunitis

Norwegian Lake carferries, 2926

Nowak, Ed (New York Central photographer), misspelled "Novak", 2202

 

[O]

O&W Ry. Historical Soc., 1020

Oak Point Transfer Bridges 1311, (photo) 1411

Oakes Ames (Lake Champlain carferry), 2352

Oakland, CA: WP ferry terminal and car barge operations (Oakland mole), 2515; prototype track plans, 2816‑17; Santa Fe Alice St. terminal, 3321; 3527 (model)

O'Connell, Gregory, 2213

Ogdensburg train ferry, 2604, 4226

Ohio (ship), 1211

Ohio River B&O crossing, 3028 (ref. to article in Sentinel, Vol. 22 No.2,

��� 2nd qtr. 2000, pp. 27‑30), 4125

OHS, 1014, 1018

Oil fuel, conversion to, from coal, on NY Central, 3509

Okanagan (Canadian Lake operations), 918, 1520

Oldest Carferry, see Carferries, earliest

Olsen, Roar, 2926

Olympic Peninsula, 2013

On the Hawser ‑ A Tugboat Album, by Lang & Spectre, 3112 (thorough summary by John Teichmoeller)

On the Waterfront (movie), 4130, 4222

Ontario No. 1 & 2, 2026. 3027, 3028

Ontario Car Ferry Co., 2921; 2922

Ontonogon County carfloat project (see also Incan Superior), late 1990s, 3927

Operations, movement of carfloats, NY style (Pearce), 1603

Operations, movement of barges, NY (Pearce), 3817

Operations, marine, Puget Sound style, 2015

Operations, model: see Staging

Operator, 1305

Orange (former DL&W steam tug), moved to Tampa, 2720, 2834, 3318, 3824

Ore dock, model (HO), see Walthers

Ore dock, model (HO) , custom built, available, 2348

Ore docks, 2354

ORER (Official Railway Equipment Register), 2021

Over and Back‑‑The History of Ferryboats in New York Harbor, 1436

Overseas Transportation of Railroad Equipment, Part 1, 1506‑1509; Part 2, 3305‑3307

Outerbridge Crossing, 2510

 

[P]

Pace, Garry, 3725, 4227

Pacific (carferry steamer), 2120

Pacific Coast Railway, 2613

Pacific Great Eastern RR (PGE), 1022, 1303‑1309, 2221

Pagan's Patent (floating grain elevator), 4004

PGE in video, 2721‑22

PGE No. 1, 1303, 2222

PGE No. 2, 1303, 1304

PGE No. 3, 2222‑2223

Pacific Great Eastern No. 3, 1303, 1305

Pacific Great Eastern, Squamish terminal, 1306

Pacific Northwest operations, see esp. 1613, 1704

PGE ‑ Railway to the North, review, 1718

Paddle boxes, 2205

Paddle wheels, feathering, 2340

PGE herald, 1303

Paintings of carferries, 3927

Palestine, WV, 3926

Panama, 1207, 3319 (new Trans‑Panama rail service)

Paraguay‑Argentina train ferries, 3926, 4029

Parisi, Ron, 1102, 1105, 1113, 1435, 1439, 1502, 1623, 1710, 1904, 2115, 2117, 2210, 3002

Parisi, Ron, ref. to article on carfloat construction in RMJ, 2617, 2823, 2903

Parisi, Ron, drawings, 2216, 3925

Parisi, Ron, covered barge contest entry, 3724

Parisi, Ron, colors of NYC marine equipment, (Spanish olives!) 2307

Parisi, Ron, photo of, next to bollard, 2116

Parkersburg, WV, carferry, crossing Little Kanawha River, 3926

Parkinson, Robert, 1016, 1108, 1207, 1219, 1414, 1433, 1434, 1436, 1438, 1440, 1443, 1518, 1617, 2118, 2123, 2203, 2205, 2518, 2523, 2623, 2903, 2923, 3423, 4221

Parksley (museum), 1016

Passenger ferryboats, references (NOT all fine works!), 2010

Passenger ferries, their place in Transfer, 1932

Patchogue (tug), 1002

Pate, Brian, 1602, 1613, 1704, 1717, 1818, 1921, 2020, 2103, 2924

Pate, Brian, on Vancouver, 3224

Pate, Brian, CN Car Ferry Canora, (prototype and superb model) 2904‑2920

Paterson (Erie tug, ON257273, later Steven McAllister), 2001, 3216 (demise), 3624 (photo, being towed to be sunk)

Patrick Morris (CNR carferry), 3204, 3304 (correction)

Patt, Ed, 3621

Patterson, 1022

Payne, Elwood M., 1324

Peabody, 1017

Pearce, David, 1012, 1107, 1114, 1116, 1117, 1118, 1119, 1203, 1217‑18, 1219, 1319, 1408, 1425, 1440, 1441, 1443, 1502, 1518, 1522, 1603, 2021, 2115, 2120, 2123, 2225, 2423‑2424, 2622, 2703, 2811‑2812 (bells, whistles, etc.), 2835, 3105, 3124, 3626, 3726‑27 (LV diesel fleet); 3817‑3823 (handling rr barges); 4023 (info on LV Covered barges); 4207‑4216 (LV RR's Bronx Terminal), 4221‑4223 (various information)

Pegasus (tug), 2210

Pelican (steam carferry), 1801, 1804‑1811, 1820, 1929, 1947, 2002

Pelican drawings, 1804, 1934

Pelican Bay Railway & Navigation Company, 1438

Penn Central merger, 1515

PRR / Pennsylvania RR, 902, 918, 1009, 1012, 1013, 1018, 1019, 1022, 1115, 1116, 1118, 1216, 1310, 1516, 2108, 2230

PRR 125‑ton F28 flat cars, 1506; F‑38 heavy duty flat car, 3521

PRR covered barges, 2215, 2357

PRR covered barge, steel, #308, 3616

PRR barge colors, 2218

PRR Consolidation Class tugs, 2922, 4221 (discussion by Frazer)

PRR Clinton St. Pier, Baltimore, 3210

PRR drawings of marine equipment, at PA Archives, 3324

PRR G22 gondola, 1506

PRR heavy lift move via carfloat, reprint of 1966 Pennsy article, 3521

PRR hold barges, 2509

PRR in Baltimore, 3207

PRR No. 9, rr tug that became Navy tug, source of info, 3928

PRR No. 16, cites article on the "first diesel electric tug", 3719

PRR No. 668 (barge), 3717

PRR LT tugs, 4225 (ref. to article on)

PRR tugs, Witmer article, summary of, 3115

PRR vs. Meseck Towing, 1620

PRR Sodus Pt. operations, 2340

PRRT&HS, 912, 1002, 1014

Pennsy Diesel Tug Keystone, 4023

Pennsylvania Railroad see PRR

Pennsylvania Railroad's Elmira Branch, 2340

Pennsylvania Railroad Harbor Facilities, 2601, 2604, 2624

Pennsylvania Steel, 3102

Pennybridge (Russell's Internet Website for NY marine operations), 1618, 1947, 2230, 3624

Pentowna, 1521

Pere Marquette RR, 1504, 2833, 2802, 2835, 3123

"Pere Marquette's Lake Michigan Car Ferries", by Chavez, entire issue of Rails, rev. 3424

"Pere Marquette Transportation Co." descrip. of article by Art Chavez, 3827

Pere Marquette� carferry, 3813

Pere Marquette 10 (former carferry, later barge), 2352

Pere Marquette 12, 1503

Pere Marguette 14, postcard image, 3725

Pere Marquette 41 (barge), 2604, 2803, 3108, 3217, 3523, 4026

Perishables traffic, 2607 (PRR)

Perth Amboy (PRR tug), 4226

Peruvian carferry on Lake Titicaca, with photos, 3023‑3025

Peters, Erhard, photographer of (and worker on) Great Lakes carferries, 4123

Peterson, David K., author of book on Great Lakes carferries, 4123

Philadelphia, 918, 1013, 1014, 1106

Philadelphia ‑ B&O floatbridge, 3026

Philadelphia ‑ PRR tug, 4224 (afterlife)

Phipps, see J.W. Phipps

Phoebe B. Boebe, freelance model carferry, 4230

Phoenix Bridge Co., 1513

Photo essays, showing marine operations, reviews: 2024, 2118,

 

Photographs of rail‑marine in other publications, listings: 3122

Photos, Tug, sources, 3115

Phyllis Yorke (tug), 2022

Picking up a float from the bridges, 1611

Pidgeon St. floatbridge (NY), 4130

Pier 27, Seattle, 15

Pier 43, San Francisco (Float bridge), 2621, 2622

Pier 62, Philadelphia (B&O float bridge), 3808

Pier stations, 1420, 1441

Pierson, Doug, 3906

Pigeon Point (RDG floatbridge), 4223

Piles, Ron, 2922

Pilothouses, tug (tall ones on RR tugs, etc.), 1003‑1005, 1014, 1113, 1115, 1523

Pin (toggle), 1117, 1605

Pins, Lapel, enameled with rr tugs, 3624

Pinchbeck, Russ, dwg. of Canora, 2905

Pinners Point terminal of Southern RR, 3411

Pinners Point (tug), 3626, 3616 (correction)

Pipeline (future Transfer articles), 3302‑3303

"Piston" on Greenville apron, 1521, 1953

Pittsburgh (PRR tug), 1819, 3103, 3929 (as Ned Ferry)

Plans: see Drawings

Plant, Ernie, 1304

Pleon (ex‑Erie Marion RR tug), 2228, 3301‑3302, 3324

Plowden, David, children's book Tugboat, 3216

Plowden, David, pix of NYC ferries, 3320

Plummer, Russell, 1434

Plymouth Torquemobile switcher, 1323

Pocomoke City, MD, 1403

Point Ellice (PGE tug), 1303, 1304, 2221

Point Ellice slip, 1704

Point Richmond, CA, 1438, 2515

Ponchartrain, 1014

Pontoon, triangular shape, 1409

PONY‑RMIG see Port of NY

Port Angeles, 2014

Port Bolivar / Galveston route, 3603

Port Costa, carferry terminal, 1436, 1617, 2117, 2333‑37, 4221

Port Costa carferry bridge details, 2336‑37

Port Costa information, 2922

Port Covington (WM), 1424, 2921, 3213

Port Maitland, 1435

Port Mann, B.C., 3720

Port Newark float bridge, 4203 & 4205

Port of New Orleans, 1322

Port of New York magazine, 2604, 2925

Port of New York Chapter of RMIG, 1623, 2115

Port Reading, NJ, 2505, 2506, 3126‑3128

Port Royal, SC, 1617

Port Series maps (Corps of Engineers), 2619 (description and current availability); 2806‑2810 (history)

Port Townsend, 2013, 3003, 3030

Port Townsend transfer bridge drawings, 2120

Porter, Russell, artist who painted Wisconsin carferries, 3927

Portland, Oregon, 1508

Portland, Maine, 1519, 3404‑09 (reprint of brochure)

Portsmouth, 1014

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 3525 cites article on its railroad operations

Portrero Hill Tunnel, San Francisco, 2517

Post Office, mail handled by steam lighters, 3013

Poster photo (cover of Transfer No. 10) caption, see Caption

Postwar diesel tugs, see Railroad Tugs, postwar diesel

Power shovels (for removing grain from boxcars or barges), 4013‑4014

Prestige (PGE tug), 2221

Prescott‑Ogdensburg train ferry, see Ogdensburg

Preservation, float bridges, 3125

Price, W.L., 1427

Prince Edward Island (CN carferry), 2702

Prince Edward Island Ry., book, 3825

Prince, Richard, 1018, 2925, 3411, 3716 (book on Atlantic Coast Line RR)

Prince Rupert, 1022, 1219, 1520, 3426

Prince Ships of Northern B.C., 2223

Princess of Vancouver, 1613

Princess Line, CP's coastal fleet, 2345

Princess Royal, 1303

Princess Superior (carferry), 914, 1112, 1435, 2345, 3204

Protexa Burlington International (Gulf of Mexico service), 914, 3308‑3316

Prototype Modeler's Seminar, 3718

PRSL, 1118

Pryke, John, 2117

Pud (fender at bow), 3518

Puerto Rico class Seatrains, 1209, 1211�

Puerto Rico Rail‑marine, 1730, 3325

Puget Sound floatbridges, 1613, 2011, 3003

Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society (Seattle), and its display models, 3002, 3929, 4129

Puget Sound (Milwaukee Road) operations, tugs, 2015

Pulling the car float, 1608, 1609

Pumps, Pontoon, 1117

Pusan, 1509

Puzio, Bob, 1107

 

[Q]

Quadrant Press, 910, 1020

Quarterdeck, large scale model of Elmira, 1521

Quebec carferries, see Baie‑Comeau

Queries, including No. 1, concerning early B&O tug colors, 915

 

[R]

R.G.Cassidy, N&W towboat, 2604; 36 rear cover; 3716, 3717

Raber Associates, 1623, 2005

Rack and pin man, 1606

Rack line, 1443

Racks, 1607

Racquette Lake Navigation Co. floatbridge model (N kit), 2923

Radio control in small model tug, 3525

Rafuse, Alan, Coal to Canada, 2921, 2922, 3027, 3028

Rahway, PRR tug, 4226

Rail‑America, see Vancouver

Rail barges, 1112, 1303

Rail chairs (carfloat), 1424, 1440,�

Rail chairs, model, 1904 (using sliced insulated rail joiners)

Rail (or Railroad) Data Exchange, 1618, 2623

Rail gun, 1413

Rail Marine psychosis, 1811

Rails to San Francisco Bay, rev. 1020

Railcar/tank barge for hazardous cargoes, 1023

Railcar bracing/fastening on carferries see Chavez, Art

Rail Marine decay, 4228

Rail‑marine listserv on Yahoo, 3526; 3928

Rail‑Marine Operations Yahoo Discussion Group (conducted by Ralph Heiss):�� to join visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railmarineops/?7guid=6909692

 

RAIL MARINE OPERATIONS, CONTEMPORARY: see:

� Mobile‑Vera Cruz (International Shipholding) under Mobile

� Galveston‑Coatzacoalcos (BN, Protexa) see Galveston

� ‑ see also Alaska (Railroad ‑ www.alaskarails.org)

� ‑ All world train ferry routes (as of 2000) said (3928) to be listed at this website: www.rinbad.demon.co.uk/trnferry.htm

 

Rail‑Marine Symposium, 1623

Railroad Ferries of the Hudson, book by Baxter and Adams, 2921

Railroad Historical Societies and their publications, 2122

Railroad Navy, 2003

Railroad tug vs. non‑railroad tug, 1718, 3113

Railroad tug typology, DuBosque, 2305, 3504

 

RAILROAD TUGS, POSTWAR DIESEL (built 1949‑1960), later disposition: info and master list, with Official Numbers and later owners, 3117‑3118; updated & news 3522 & 3526 (misc.); 3523 & 4029 (Crescent ex‑Consolidation tugs); see also Akron; Communipaw; Harrisburg; Marion; Orange (ex‑steam); Paterson; Syracuse, Utica; Walter L. Price; Wilkes‑Barre

�� Conversion into more modern tug: 4029, 4121‑4123

Railroad Tugs, Part I, NY Central, 2305‑2312; Part IA, roster and photos: 2415‑2420; addenda: 2603, 2925, 3124

Railroad Tugs, Part II: 3112‑3118 (includes tug bibliography; postwar tugs)

Railroad Tugs, Part III: New York Central tugs, typology and chronological roster, 3503‑3512

Railroad Tugs: see under name of tug or railroad (e.g. New Haven RR tugs)

Railroad Tugs, bibliography and photo sources for railroad tugs, by JT, 3112

"Railroad Tugboats in HO Scale from Walthers Kit", by Teichmoeller, article in Rail Model Journal, illustrated and annotated bibliography, 2617, 3115, summaries

Railroad Tugs, misc. news items from Tugbitts: 3526

Railroading Along the Waterfront by Rantanes, review, 2342; description of the project by Teichmoeller, and errata 2823‑2824; photos and references that didn't make it into the Baltimore section, 3206‑3215

"Rails Across the Hudson", article by William Middleton in Railroad History (Spring 2002), summarized 3621

Railway Carferries, American and Foreign, 1408

Railway Steamships of Ontario, 1519

Rainbow of NY (stick lighter), 2114

Rake (on carfloats), 1424

Ramon (carferry), 1021, 1521

Ramon, model of carferry by McLean, 3619

Randy (tug), 2223

Ransome‑Wallis, P. (book on European train ferries), 2623, 3424

Rantanes, Eli, 2119, 2342, 2604, 2823, 2925, 4221

Rau, William, 1108, 1109, 1207, 1211, 1414, 1720, 3324, 3512, 3617

Reach Car (or "Reacher Car"; see also Idler), 912, 1115, 1607, 1921, 3321, 4217‑4219 (pictorial)

Reap, John, 1440, 1518

Reading car dumper, video, 1716

Reading carfloats for sale, 1976 ad, 1105

Reading carfloat operations on Delaware, ref. to article, 2921; 3622

Reading RR No. 25, carfloat, now beached, 3525

Reading RR Wilmington & Northern Branch, ref. to model article, 3121

Rebuilding the Reading Car Dumper, video review, 1716

Records, data, see Archives

Red Star hold barge, 2614

Reefer, Refrigerator Cars, 912, 1002, 1021, 1118

Reevy, Tom, 3826

Reflector, see S&D Reflector

Refrigerator barges (type of covered barge), 2218, 3910 (hatch location); 4232‑4236 (HAER survey info, incl. dwg.)

Register depth of a vessel, 1929

Register(ed) length of a vessel, see Length

Reilly, Frank, 3622

Reliable Welding Works of Olympia, WA., 1305

Reliant (tug), 2622

Rending out, 1607

Resin Unlimited, HO kit for Edmund Fitzgerald, 2230

Resolute, tug, 3716, 3922, 3923

"Retractable" car ferry, 4228

Reviews of books, see name of book; also see Bibliographies

Revkin, Andrew, 2617 (author of NY Times article on Witte)

Rhodes, Doug, 3029

Ribuffo, Michael, 3527 (NH RR archives on web), 3927

Richardson, Capt. Edward, 902, 1022, 1109

Richardson, R.G., 3124

Richborough Transportation Depot, 4106

Riddell, John, 1440

Rigging: tying cars down on carferries, 3610‑3616; 3811‑3816

Risdon Iron Works (west coast), 2204

River barge drawings, 1520

River Cafe, restaurant barge in Brooklyn, 3520, 3626 (ex‑B&O identification)

River crossings: see name of railroad or landing

River transfer steamers, see Rivers and Gulf bibliography

RMIG Baltimore chapter, 2511

RMIG finances, 1302

RMIG rail‑marine symposium, 1623

RMIG, New York "chapter", 1402

RMIG website: www.trainweb.org/rmig (more info, see Website below)

Roanoke (carferry barge, ex‑City of Flint) 2803 (for sale); 3628

Roberts, Allan: cover photo, 3501 (caption 3502)

Rochester, NY, 2026 Rocker, 1513

Rocker casting, 1516

Rocky Mountain Shipyard, 2231

Rodolf, Carl, 2340

Roebling Chapter, SIA, 2115, 4127

Roehm, Peter, 1519, 1617

Rohde, William, 1012

Rockaway (LIRR ferryboat), 1930, 2106

Rope tugboat fenders, 2926

Rose, Byron S., 1418

Roselle, CNJ tug that became Navy tug, source of info, 3928

Roseman, Victor, 1004, 1012, 2832, 3126

Ross, Al, 4221

Rossiter, Neville, photo of model of LIC type float bridge (full story in O Scale Trains magazine, Issue #1, including track plan and construction article, avail. free on Internet at WWW.OSCALEMAG.COM); description of his layout, 3720; 3725; 4024 (Erie Harlem River terminal layout), 4023 (track plan); 4230 (Lionel tug on his layout)

Rosters and lists of floating equipment (see also under name of company), 2219, 2328 (Hiawatha Navy), 2418 (NY Central tugs), 3103 (NY steam lighters), 3117 (postwar East Coast diesel tugs), 3726 (LV RR diesel tugs)

Roustabout crew, 2622

Roy B. White (B&O tug), 3522, 3717; 3823 (photo as Hercules), 3824 (sale); 3922, 3929 (model), 3931 (1980 photo)

RTC tugs, 917, 1005, 1106‑1107

Rub strips, 2008

Rubarth, Thomas and Bill, model of Solano, 3930

Rules of the road (for boats), 2811‑12

Runt boats (as in vestigial model carfloat operation), 1439

Russell, Bill, 1618, 1947

Russian train ferries, 4125

Rutland RR carferry, 2352

Rutter, Richard, 2204, 2205, 2209, 2357

Ryan, Gary, 1954, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2121

 

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S&D Reflector, 1802, 3423

St. Clair River tugs, 2022

St. Joseph (N&W towboat), 3716, 3717

St. Lawrence see Saint Lawrence

St. Genevieve (carferry), 1804, 3121, 3927 (re article)

Sacramento Northern, 1021

Safety, when visiting rail‑marine operations, 3224

Sail lighter, 2108

Saillard, Louis R., 1014, 1016, 1018, 1807, 2346

Saint Germain Vintage Train Ferry, review, 2344

Saint George, S.I. (SIRT), 4231

Saint Ignace, MI, carferry landing, 1917; 4029

Saint Lawrence River carferries, current, see Baie‑Comeau

Saint Lawrence River swing ferry transfer barge (Grand Trunk), 3227

Saint Lawrence River carferry history, rev. of article, 2024

Sainte Marie, 4223

San Francesco Di Paola (Italian carferry), 2920

San Francisco, 916, 1014, 1020, 1021, 1107, 1112, 1115, 1210, 1219

San Francisco Bay marine operations, 1436, 2330‑2338 (see also comments and errata 2421)

San Francisco Bay: Western Pacific's Navy, 2514‑2523, see followup with track plans etc. 2813‑2817

San Francisco Bay‑style floatbridges, 2340

San Francisco paddle tug, 2622

San Francisco Pier 43 (Roman arch) float bridge at Fishermans Wharf, damaged, 2427; destroyed 2621 (photo), 2622; more news 2903

San Francisco area: see also Southern Pacific; Sausalito; Port Costa, Western Pacific; Float Bridges, San Francisco

San Francisco Bay Ferryboats, book, 1021

San Francisco Bay Ferryboats, video, 1520

San Francisco State Belt RR ‑ see State Belt

Sanborn Maps, 2027, 2350

Sandy Hook, CNJ tug, 3922

Sankey, Alice (author, children's book), 3719

Sansom, C.E., 1416

Santa Barbara (tanker) 1211

Santa Fe tug and barge servicing of Tiburon, 1617

Santa Fe Heritage, review (10 pp on S.F. Bay Operations), 3825

Santa Fe floatbridge at China Basin, 2340, 3319

Santa Fe, Alice Street Yard at Oakland, 3321; 3527 (modeling)

Santa Fe, Coast Lines bay services, 2118

Santa Fe operations in S.F. Bay, ref. to article, 3221

Santa Fe tug Paul Hastings see Hastings

Sappers, Vernon J., 1020

Sarah Edenborn (Miss. River towboat), 1716

Sarnia, 1219

Sausalito terminal, 916, 1112, 1219, 2203, 2207

Sausalito (ferryboat, ex‑carferry), 1219, 2203

Savanna(h), 907, 908, 910, 1109

Savannah Line, book by Edward Mueller, rev. by Teichmoeller, 3620

Scala, John, 1618

Scandinavia (ex‑RR tug) see Syracuse

Schaefer Brewery (Brooklyn), 1009, 1118, 2508, 4109 (grain by carfloat), 4231�

Schaeffer, Benjamin, 4029

Schafer, Bob, 1402

Scheduling of marine operations: 4215 (Harlem River terminals)

� (see also: Operations; CP Rail)

Schleicher, Bob, 1617

Schlerf, Gary, 903, 1003

Schlund, Claus, 2203���

Schmitt, 1013

Schoen, Steve, 3122

Schooner barges, 2424

Schopp, Bill, 4229

Schultz, Irv, 1438

Schurr, Jeff, 3525, 3717

Schwadtke, 910

Scoles, Paul, 1438

Scott, 1018

Scow hull construction, 2007

Screw jack for rails on floatbridge, 1607

Screws, 1311

Sea Level, 1323

Sea Link Marine Services, BC, 2520

Sea Port Model Works, 4126, 4221

Sea Train basin, 1320

Seagulls, model, 1915, 2024, 2117

Sealift, 1207

Seaport: New York's Vanished Waterfront, 4028

Searails, model kit, 3221 (cites review); 3722; 3928 (N carfloat, container crane)

Seaspan Challenger, articulated tug‑barge, working for Seaspan Coastal, 3524 (ref. to article)

Seaspan Doris, 917, 1308

Seaspan Greg, 917, 1308

Seaspan Coastal Intermodal Company, 2511, 2603, schedule reproduced 2831, 3524

Seaspan International Ltd., 1308, 2116, 2603, 3623

Seatrain (the ship of that name, later Seatrain New Orleans), 1109

 

SEATRAIN articles:��

� Part 1 "Seatrains: The First Container Ships" (by Phil Sims), 903‑910.� Fine summary of Seatrain history, including wartime service, with Sims' take on original purpose and its economics.� A paraphrase of this article was used in the book Where Rails Meet the Sea, pp. 112‑114, without credit. Includes drawings, three 1930s photos including birdseye at Hoboken.

� Part 2 just called "Seatrain ‑‑ Part 2", 1108‑1111; with more detailed information on the fleet.� (Note: corrections on the use of the nautical

� term "tonnage" in this article can be found in No. 14, p. 7).��

� Part 3, Fleet List Cont., 1207‑1211;

� Part 4, Terminals, 1319‑1324;

� Part 5, Finale: Hodgepodge and Mop‑Up 1414‑1418

Seatrain "cross‑section" photo (with the boxcar ends), 1101

Seatrain fleet, 1108‑1111; 1207‑1211

Seatrain terminals:

��� Edgewater (NJ) terminal, 1320, 1321

��� Havana Terminal, 1323

��� Hoboken (NJ) Terminal, 906, 907, 918, 920, 1109, 1319

��� New Orleans Terminal, 1322, 2352

��� Terminals in NJ, 1415

��� Texas City Terminal, 1324, 1415, 1433

��� Weehawken (NJ) container terminal, 1415

Seatrain clippings, 1416;

Seatrain Georgia, 1209, 1210

Seatrain insignia, 908, 1108, 2020

Seatrain Havana, 906, 1109, 1111

Seatrain Lines stock certificate, 1414

Seatrain Maine, 1209, 1211

Seatrain New Jersey, 1209

Seatrain New York, 1109, 1110, 1415

Seatrain references, 1415; 4226

Seatrain operating frequency, 1955

Seatrain Seamobile service, 907, 1415, 1416

Seatrain Texas, 1415

Seatrain vessel names, 1442

Seatrain Washington, 1518

Seattle, 914, 1023, 1112, 1219, 1308, 1508, 2012, 4031

Seattle Pier 15‑1/2 floatbridge, 3022

Seattle's Pier 27, 3003

Seattle and North Coast RR, 2014, 3009, 3031

Seattle Coal and Transportation, 2425, 2613

Sebastian‑Coleman, Laura, 2823, 3206

Securing cars on carfloats, 1605

Securing the carfloat, 1607

Securing the float, 1607

Seguin, David (builder of N scale Chief Wawatam), 2022

Self‑unloading, 909, 1111

Self propelled lighters, 2107; addenda and corrections, 2225, 2423; article, 3013‑3021; addenda to article 3225

Semon, Gene, 1414

Serig, Howard W. (Greenville Bypass article in Keystone), 2230

Shannon, Donald, ref. to his article on Hiawatha Navy, 2018, but corr. 3616

Sharps, David, 2005, 2213, 3216, 3617, 3905

Shaum, Jack, 3621

Shaw, Eddie, 2619

Shaw, Jim, 3318

Sheehan, Bernard, 1958

Sheer (longitudinal curve of a boat), 2008, 4126 (in models)

Sheepscot Scale Models, 1021, 2511, 2618, 3322

Sheepscot seagull models, 2024, 2117

Sheepscot models of cranes, 1944, 2349

Sheepscot model of tug, 2349

Shell plating on models, 2346

Sheppard, William, 1012

Shifting (or drill) tugs, 3504, 3509, 3820

Shipbuilding in Wilmington, book review, 3825

Ships and Narrow Gauge Rails (by Gerald Best), 2613

Shipmate stove, 2111

Shipments, interesting: see Heavy Lifts; also see Seatrain

Shipments, interesting: shipment of locomotives overseas, 1506‑1509 (Sims article; 3523 (Canadian, to UK), 4125, 4129

Ships, analyses of a type of cargo ship (see also Seatrain), 2341

Shipwrecks in New York Waters, 2614

Shooter's Island barge graveyard, 4232‑4236 (incl. aerial photo)

Short carfloats: see Carfloats, short

Short floatbridges: see small floatbridges

SIA, see Society for Industrial Archeology

Siberia carferry, 2916

Sicamous, 1520, 2118

Signals, engineroom and vessel‑to‑vessel, 2811‑12

Signor, John R., 2117

Silk trains, on WP, 2516

Sims, Phil, "Seatrains: The First Container Ships", 903‑908

Sims, Phil, 908 (bio), 1108, 1207, 1219, 1407, 1414, 1417, 1506, 1619, 1620, 2339, 2347, 2352, 2617, 2623, 2720, 2832, 2916, 3023, 3029, 3203 (Russian carferry), 3219, 3718 (Chinese train ferry), 3824 (Class 66s), 3825, 3928, 4220 (Argentine Rail‑Marine)

Sims, Phil, Overseas Transportation of locos etc., 3305, 3523

Sintich, Jack, builder of model of cable laying railroad barge, 3525

SIRT, 4231 (see also B&O; St. George)

Sixty‑ninth St. transfer bridge, see NY Central 69th St.

Size of print and reproductions in Transfer, 1932, 4202

Sizing of vessels, 1619

Skinner Unaflow Engine, 1406

Sled, John, 1717

Slip Switches, in yard ladders, 3710

Slips, 1607

Small floatbridges to model, query and answers, 1522, 1621, 1923

Small carfloats, see Carfloats, short

Small container ports, 2926

Small Rail‑Marine prototype, 1621, 1703

Smiley, Charles, 2348

Smithfield Terminal (Virginia), 1522

Smith, Alexander R. (ed. of Port of NY), 2604

Smith, David, 1703, 1709

Smith, Michael P., 1522, 1952, 2511

Smithsonian model of tug Brooklyn, 2722

Smogoleski, "Crow", 916

Snyder, George, 2834 Society for Industrial Archaeology Conferences & Tours, 1502 (1995, Baltimore); 3520 (2002 conference, Brooklyn), 4222 (Fall 2004, Wilmington)

Society for the Preservation of the S.S. City of Milwaukee, 1434

Sodus Pt. operations, PRR, 2340, 2350

Solano (carferry), 903, 1436, 2117, 2330‑2337 (see also 2421), 3931 (model); 4114‑4120 (model), 4128 (Rubarth model), 4231 (more info, incl. method of connecting to bridge)

Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen, 1802, 3718

Sound Shore (CNJ tug), 3717, 3922

South Pacific Coast (SPC), 2203

South Street Seaport Museum, 4025

Southern Pacific, carferries at Carquinez, 1436, 2117, 2330‑2337, 4114‑4120

Southern Pacific, other bay area, 2118, 2423 (letter)

Southern Pacific, at New York Port, 1221, 2339, 2422

Southern Pacific in N scale, incl. Oakland Mole, 2347

Southern Pacific Port Costa facilities, 2922

Southern RR's marine operations: 3410‑3417

SP By the Bay ‑ a Thirty Year Look video, review, 2349

Sparks, 1116

Spartan, 1434, 1622, 2346, 3217, 3304

Spectre, Peter, 1426

Speedlink Vanguard (sponsoned train ferry), 2347

Speedway to Sunshine, 2nd Ed. (FEC RY), review, 3826

Spencer J. White ‑ Custom Builder of Model Ships, 1619, 1944

Splendor Sailed the Sound ‑ New Haven RR and the Fall River Line, 2122

Spofford, 909

Spirit of the Lakes, by David Peterson, rev.: 4123

Spiro, Don, 2229, 2616, 2833, 3719, 3720

Spohn, Robert, 1522

Springfield, 1105

Squamish, 1022, 1303, 1309, 2223, 2229, 2723

Squamish barge slip, 1306

Squamish Queen, 2223

Squamish terminal of PGE, 1306‑1309, 2223

Squamish Terminals (pulp‑loading port), 1306, 1309

Stacura, Irene, 2209

SSHSA ‑ see Steamship Historical

Staging on model railroads, using carfloats: 1103, 1520 (McLaughlin article reviewed, also problems of using carfloat staging), 1709, 1946, 1819, 1952, 2577

Staging: see also GO‑float

Stakeboats, NY Harbor, 2507

Stamps, postage, 2021

Stanchions, 1426

Standardization of toggles, & lack of it, at NY, letter, 2122

Standards for carfloat‑floatbridge interface, 1925

Stanley, Allen (Railroad Data Exchange), 1618, 2623

Starrett‑Lehigh Building, 1204‑1205, 1433, 3121

State Belt RR (San Francisco), 1021, 2516, 2517

Staten Island (tug), 1112,

Staten Island, 1623

Staten Island Rapid Transit, see SIRT

Staten Island Yard (Beth Steel), 2009, 2218‑19, 3924, 4221

Station (platform) floats, 1604

Station float, 1420

Stauffer, Al, 1018, 1436

Stavelot, 1507

Stea, Armand, 2117

"Steam and Saltwater", ref. to article in Keystone, 3115

Steam engines, as used in tugs, description, 3509

Steam lighter: NYC No. 14, 1946

Steam lighters, NY Harbor, article, 3013‑3021; roster, 3103‑3108

Steam‑to‑diesel transition, in self‑propelled lighters, 3015

Steam vs. diesel, on NY Central, 3511

Steamship Historical Society of America Baltimore cruise, 2115

Steamship Historical Society of America, research library, 2202

Steamship Historical Society of America, as photo source, 3115

Steamships of the Two Henrys, book review, 2025‑2026, see also 3826

Steel construction in barges, 2009, 2203

Steel, transition to, in steam lighters, 3014

Steel covered barges, 2218

Steele & Condict of Jersey City, 1513

Stem head, 1610

STENA, 914

Sterlington (Erie steam lighter), 3014, 3104

Stern cleats, 1610

Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs, 1304

Sternwheel, 1112

Sternwheeler‑carfloat, 1219

Sternwheel transfer boats, 2120

Stevedore vs. longshoreman, 1418

Stewart B. Johnson of Chelan, WA., 1305

Stewart, Monroe, 1441, 1443, 1623, 3116

Stick lighter, stickboat, see Self‑propelled lighters

Stippes, Geoffrey, 1438

Stowage, 1506

Strakes, 1817

Strang, Lionel, 2833

Streetcars, loading, 1507

Streisand, 1113

Stringfellow, Martin (PRR marine modeler), 3526

Strongbacks, 2504

Structural steel, delivery by lighter, 2108

Sturgeon Bay [WI], 1434

Sturm, Robert C., 1618

Suffern (Erie steam lighter), 3014

Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, 1209

Sun Shipbuilding, 1207

Sunnyside Yard, LIRR, in NY, 1819

Superintendent of Transportation, 2107

Superior (LV tug), 1107

Superior, WI, float bridge at, 3026; see also Incan Superior

Surviving float bridges, see Float bridges, extant

Suskewicz, John, 1112

Suspension yoke, 1517

Suspension‑type transfer bridges, 1311

Susquehanna River crossing, carferries, 3926

Swan Point, ex LV Lehigh, 3403, 3717 (last rites), 3726

Swan, H.F., ref. to article on icebreaking ships, 3303

Swanberg, J. W., 917, 1012, 1018

Swett, Ira, 1021

Swift, Jim, 3718

Switching cars, 1605

Switchstand (throw lever) on float bridge, photo, 2715; comment 2834

Swiveling head‑block, 1510

Sylvan Scale Models N Scale tugboat, 2025, 2833; N scale Laker, 3323

Sylvan Scale Models HO Laker, 4030

Sylvan Scale Models HO "St. Lawrence Canaler" ore carrier, 2349, 3321

Sylvan Scale Models HO rr steam tug, 3322

Sylvan ‑ barge with coal ‑ 2618

Syracuse (DL&W tug), later named Scandinavia, 3716, 3923

Szwajkart, John, 1442

 

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T2 tankers, 1209, 1211

Taber, Thomas Townsend, 1012

Tacoma, 1112, 2011, 2019

Tacoma (train ferry) 3007, 3011, 3124 (news of accident)

Tampa, Fl, TES meet, 2720

TAMS tug design: see Preston Cook bibliography, 3113; comparative anatomy photos 3116; used in LV tugs 3726

Tandem Ferry Aprons for CP Rail, 1717

"Targel pockets", 2122

Tarpaulin, to cover cargo, 2109

Taubman, Abe: source of marine plans, 4126

Tea‑carts for moving carfloats, see Carferry models

� Teichmoeller, John (new address), 1402

Teichmoeller, John: some major items; see also tables of contents for major articles (Commentaries and smaller items by him are far too numerous to list here!)

� Teichmoeller, John, Baltimore rail‑marine, fuller description than in Krieger book, 3206‑3215

� Teichmoeller, John, Carfloating in Gulf of Mexico, 1990s style, 3308‑3315

� Teichmoeller, John, commentary on Where Rails Meet the Sea, 2825

� Teichmoeller, John, Hiawatha Navy fleet, 2328‑2329

� Teichmoeller, John, Lehigh Valley Barge No.79 (compiled by him), 3905

� Teichmoeller, John, Light‑Duty Floatbridges, 3320, ref. to article in Model Railroading, Oct. 1999, pp. 48‑50.

� Teichmoeller, John, modeling tugs from Walthers kit, ref. to article in RMJ (with summary of postwar RR tug development), 3115

� Teichmoeller, John, Northeast Steel Carfloat Architecture, 1419‑1432 and 1924‑1925

� Teichmoeller, John, review of Walthers kit and railroad tugs, 2616

� Tecihmoeller, John, 2002 SIA conference description, 3520, 3522

� Teichmoeller, John, The Solano and the Contra Costa, An enthusiast's file, 2330‑2338

� Teichmoeller, John, summary of his article in Sentinel (23‑1) "B&O RR Diesel Tugs", 3220

� Teichmoeller, John, Walthers waterfront project, description, 2823

� Teichmoeller, John, probable last presentation of "Railroading along the Waterfront with Walthers" Nov. 2004, and how to obtain handout, 4128

� Teichmoeller, John, presentation to symposium on B&O and Baltimore, 4128

� Teichmoeller, John: also see article in Model Railroading (Oct. 1999, p.48) on the prototype of the Walthers HO float bridge model

Telephone (WP ferry), 2516

Tennessee River, 1440, 2346,

Tennessee River carferry incline, mention of articles on 2430

Terminal Railroads, Brookyn waterfront: 3705

Terminal Stores, New York, 1202, 1203, 3916‑3918

Terminology, nautical: see Nautical terminology

Terminology, car ferries vs. train ferries etc., 4108

Terpenning, John, 1116, 1118, 1219, 1418, 1518, 1523, 1619, 1703, 1953, 2122, 2415, 2613, 2834, 2925, 3931, 4023, 4127 (obit)

Terranova, John, 1206, 1518

Terrien, Leo, 915, 1439

Texas and Pacific RR transfer, New Orleans, 2024, 4226 (ref. to aerial view)

Texas City, TX, Seatrain Terminal, 906, 1324, 1415, 1433

Texas City Terminal Railway Company, 1415

Texas‑New Orleans, 1207, 1209, 1942

Thomas St. Philip, see Utica

Thompson & Davis Barge Co. (fictional), model kit, 3928

Thompson, E.L. "Tommy", 903

Thonger, Tod (lapel pins with tugs), 3624

Thornwood (cov. barge), 2214

Thorofare (SP carferry), 4120

Thunder Bay ‑ Duluth/Superior carferry service, see Incan Superior; also 3927

Tibbets, Vincent, 3113

Tiburon, 1107, 2204, 2341, 2903, 4018

Tidewater Virginia, see Hampton Roads

Tie‑down chain, 905, 1607

Tie‑down system, Lakes ferries, 1504

Tie‑down systems, general, 3811‑3816

Tiedown turnbuckles, 1509

Tiger (sidewheel tug), 917, 2203‑2209, 2357

Tilbury Cement Plant, 2103

Tilbury terminal of CP Rail, Vancouver, 1720, 1950, 2103

Tilbury‑Nanaimo carferry service, 3824, 4002

Timber piling pier‑retaining wall, N & HO models of by Mr. Plaster, 915

Timenes, Nic (review), 4028

Titicaca, Lake, Train Ferry (with photos), 3023‑3025

Titman, Frank, 1427

Todd Shipyard, Hoboken, NJ, 1319

Toggle bars and sockets, 1104‑1105, 1113, 1216‑1218, 1512, 1955

Toggle bars and sockets, multiple and variations, query, 1955, answer 2122

Toggle bar spacing, 1925

Toggle pockets, 1426, 2122, 2122

Toggles, see also Floatbridges, NY Port

Toledo, Ann Arbor &� North Michigan Railway website, 4227

Tomb, Robert, 1804, 1807

Tonnage, 1407

Tonnage statistics, 1407

Topper, Mark, 1427

Topping lift, 2109

Torque limiting clutch, 1609

TOTE (Alaska service), 3219

TOWBITTS, 1022, 1112

Towboats, 1505

Towing car floats, 1609

Towing barges at NY (by Pearce), including gear, lines, etc., 3817‑3823

Towing barges, lights required, 2622

Towing cleat, 1604

Towing practice (bitts, lines), 1603‑11, 1703

Towing strap, 1610

Towline, 1005

Track Plan: Model of Brooklyn Dock RR, 1927

Track plans, prototype, with details: see Float Yards; Port Series; Bush Terminal article (esp. 3709‑3710); B&O offline terminal track plans with commentary 2812 & 2834

Track plan after Windsor, Ontario, by Baustert, 4131

Trackage, see Double Crossovers; Double slip switches; Frogs

Tractors, 906, 1117

Trailer Princess, 914, 2603

Train ferries of the world, all current as of 2000 listed at website (p.3928): www.rinbad.demon.co.uk/trnferry.htm

Train ferries, Britain to France, 2347, 4106‑4112, 4226

"Train Ferries", ref. to 1931 article comparing various technologies, 4226

Train ferries, foreign, 2347, 4125 (Russian; proposals), 4126, 4220, 4226

� ‑ see also European train ferries

Train Ferries of Western Europe (book by Ransome‑Wallis), 3424, 2623

"Train on the Water" ‑ photo of train of stick lighters beig towed ‑ 2124

Trains Unlimited Tours, 3023

Transfer Boats, 1947

Transfer boat project, 3718

Transfer Bridges (see also Float Bridges), 1310, 1510

Transfer Bridge at West Norfolk, VA, 3418

Transfer float, 1420

Transfer: its place as a journal, 1602

Transfer: what we intend to cover, 903, 907, 1413

Transfer No. 2 (rail barge), 2205

Transfer No. 14, 15 (NH RR tugs), 2341

Transit (SP carferry), 4120

Transportation of Railroad Equipment, 1506

TransTech Marine Co., analysis of economics of carferries vs. tunnel, 4126

Tratman, E.E.R., 1408, 1807, 1942 (reprint)

Traveling cradle system (see also inclines), 1942

Trinity Marine, 1620

Triple expansion steam engines, 1503

Triumph VI, rev. of book, 3926

Trolls, floatbridge, 3026

Trotter's Point, Miss., 2002, 2028

Trubow, Mike, 1324, 1602, 2220 Truss rods, 1310

Tug Boat Red (name of wine), 4131

Tug log sheets, 4228

Tug models, 1619, 3513 (building Walthers model kit)

Tug‑and‑barge, 1505

Tugboat Enthusiasts Society of America (TES), 2023, 2720 (Tampa meet), 3923 (Philadelphia cruise)

Tugboat Enthusiasts items, see also Railroad Tugs

Tugboat, first diesel electric, article cited 3719

Tugboats on the Piscataqua, review, 1718

Tugboat pilothouses, height etc., see Pilothouses

"Tugboats, Railroad", w. rev. of Walthers kit, by Teichmoeller: in 2‑99 RMC, mentioned 2616� Tugboat rope fenders (esp. modeling), 2926

Tugs and towing, 1117‑1118 (letters from Pearce and Terpenning)

Tugs, bibliography and photo sources for railroad tugs, by JT, 3112

Tugboats, army (WW II), 4125

Tugboats, how they tow carfloats, by Dave Pearce, 1603‑1611

Tugboats, how they tow barges, by Dave Pearce, 3817‑3823

Tugboats, see Railroad Tugboats for general info, or see name of railroad

Tugs, number of men in crew, 2423

Tugboats, war surplus, in use as rail‑marine tugs, (see also LT tugs), 4225

"Tugs Everlasting", article about postward RR diesel tugs by Chase in Invention and Technology, 3522, 3622

Tug‑barge, 909, 914

Tugbitts (the journal), 902, 916, 1112, 1119, 1219, 2023, 3122

Tunnel across New York Harbor for freight, counter‑proposals, 4126

Turner, Robert, 1219, 1304, 1433, 1438, 1440, 1520, 1617, 2345, 3627 (comments on mystery photo)

Twenty‑sixth St. transfer bridge, see B&O 26th St.

Twin‑Screw tugs, reason for, 4030

Tyler Tanker, 1209

 

[U]

UCONN (Univ. of Ct.) library, 3527

Udasco, Harbor John, 2219

Ukiah, 1115, 1617

Ulrich, Lawrence, 3420, 3512 (correction)

Ultimate rail marine operation, 1519

Undaunted (tug), 2604, 3109, 3217, 3523, 4026

Underground Railway Press (sells plans), 3929

Union Iron Works, San Francisco Bay, 2204, 2205

Union Pacific RR, connection to Puget Sound, 2223

Union Steamship Company, 1306

United Dry Dock, 1319

United Fruit, banana pier at Baltimore, 3207

United Fruit, at Boston, 3226

United Railways of Havana, 1323

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, see Corps

United States Navy, vessel and name usage, 2121

U.S. Navy, as owner of steam lighter, 3225

U.S. Navy, info on tugs that were ex‑rr, 3928

U.S. Post Office, mail handled by steam lighters, 3013

USRA Tug (NY Central), 3505

University of Wisconsin photo archives, 1806

Utica, DL&W diesel tug, later Thomas St. Philip, see 3716

 

[V]

Vail, Jim, 1112

Van Dyke, Donald, 2117

Vancouver Island Princess, 914

Vancouver, 917, 1023, 1112, 1115, 1435, 1602, 1613, 1704, 1920, 2223, 2345, 3224

Vancouver railcar barge service: see also Turner article in Railroad Model Craftsman, May 2004, 85‑89

���������� (includes color photos; brief histories of most of the services and operators)

Vancouver: see also Can. Pacific

Vancouver: see also Canora

Vancouver A3 slip, 1613, 1717, 1719

Vancouver BN (ex‑GN) barge slip, 2924, 3029

Vancouver Island, Point Ellice slip, 1704

Vancouver Island, V&S Ry., book review, 1718

Vancouver Island (Nanaimo) to Tilbury, B.C. Rail Barge service, contemporary: 1613, 3411, 3524, 3824 (discontinued)

Vancouver Island, Chemainus slip, 1923

Vancouver Maritime Museum, 1305, 1306

Vancouver‑‑The Ultimate Guide, 1306

Vangs, 2109

Varholy, David, 2423

Vents, carfloat hull, on C&O float, 3924

Veracruz, 1219

Vermande, Tim, 4227

Vernon, 1020

Vessel documentation, 2202, 2204

Vessel enrollment information, 2204

Vestigial carfloat operation, 1522

Vestigial rail‑marine, 1437

Vicksburg, MISS., 1943

Victor (LV steam lighter): from McCue etching, on cover 3201, 3225, 3502, 3720; 4023 (drawing)

The Victoria and Sidney Railway, review, 1718

VIDEO REVIEWS, 1021, 1113‑1114, 1520 (S.F. Bay ferries), 2619, 2119 ("Connie", Queen of the Skies); 2722 (PGE) (see also 2835), 3723 (Great Model Railroads 41 ‑ Cal Winter's FEC)

Viking (former Ann Arbor carferry), 1434, 1950, 2022, 2702, 2921, 3718, 3824 (last voyage); 3925

Violino, Richard, 2603, 2614, 2723

Virginian, 915

Voco Marine Model, Great Lakes cargo ships, 1/200 scale, 1440, 2025, 2231 (later Bearco, 3427)

Vondrak, Ed, 2230

Vortex, the, 1602

 

[W]

W.R. Coe (later known as Karen Tibbets or Ethel Tibbets), 3116, 3321 (model of); 3617, 3922, 3929 (plans), 4224

Wabash RR Detroit River carferry, see Norfolk & Western

Waelder, Howard C., 912, 913

Wagner, Stein and Greene, 1303

Wald, Mathew L., 1112 Walking‑beam, 1013

Wallabout Terminal, 1116, 1119

Wallsend Shipway, 1109

Walsh, Ken, 3220

Walter L. Price (B&O tug, later Carol Wales), 3624

Walthers: see also Railroading Along the Waterfront

Walthers HO kit for Carfloat Apron (float bridge), 2348, 2431

Walthers HO kit for Carfloat Apron (float bridge): see John Teichmoeller's article in Model Railroading (Oct. 1999, p.48) on the possible prototype of this model (Reading RR's Delaware River float bridges)

Walthers HO kit for carfloat, tug article on, 2617

Walthers HO kit for Municipal Pier Terminal, 2348, 2431

Walthers HO kit for Pier and Traveling Crane, 2348, 2431

Walthers HO kit for Railroad Tug, 2431, 2614, 2617 (ref. to Teichmoeller's review in Railmodel Journal, Jan. 99, pp. 22‑28),

��������� 2833, 2926, 3513‑3520 (how to build kit); out of production, 3722; 3930

Walthers HO kit for Upper Lakes Ore Dock, 2347

Walthers HO models, Waterfront Series, 2231, 2342, 2348, 2431, 2617

Warner Sugar Refining Co., lighter owner, 3225

Wartime traffic, 1514;

Wascana, 1506

Washington (State) narrow gauge rail marine line, 2425

Waterfront Museum see Lehigh Valley RR No. 79 covered barge

Waterhouse, John, 1023

Watt, Brian, 2022

Wawatam, see Chief Wawatam

Way, Capt. Fred, 1802

Way, Tom, 1802

Way's Packet Directory, 1802, 1807

Wayne, Carl, maintainer of tug database, 1819, 3403, 3520 (notice of death)

W.E. Maxson (car barge, Texas), 3526

Wear strakes, 2008

Website, "Mother of all Maritime Lists", 2923

Website of RMIG (www.trainweb.org/rmig, as of 11/00), 2802, 3002, 3223 ("The literature")

Website: Ralph Heiss' Rail‑Marine Operations Yahoo Discussion Group, 3928;

������� to join visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/railmarineops/?7guid=6909692

Website said (3928) to list all current train ferries as of 2000: www.rinbad.demon.co.uk/trnferry.htm

Websites: 1618, 1811, 1947, 2230, 2350, 3223 (Yahoo), 3525 ("Boatnerd" site), 3624, 4232 (HAER surveys)�

Wedell Foss (Seattle tug), 3009

Weehawken Yard ‑ see West Shore

Weehawken Cove, 1319

Weehawken, Hoboken & Troy (fictitious but good railroad name), 3719

Weekend Chief Publishing Co., 1618, 2351

Weiglin, Peter, 1018, 2122

Weinstein, Edward, 1955, 2001, 2022, 2423, 2613, 2622, 3120 (cites his letter about PRR marine in Keystone); obit. 3403, 3928 (ref. to reminiscence)

Weinstein, Gerry, 1406, 1623, 2005, 2503

Wentzel, Don, 2921

Wershler, Terri, 1306

West 26th St. Yard, see B&O West 26th St. Yard

West Coast bibliographies ‑ see lists of articles in each Transfer, above

West Coast marine operations, in general: see 2424

West India Fruit and Steamship Company (WIF&SS Co., or WIF) 1109, 1219, 1223, 1323, 1418, 1717, 1944, 2025, 2412, 3204, 3929

West India Fruit Co. decals, 1418

West Seattle floatbridge, 1819

West Shore Weehawken Yard, 1515, 2218, 4203 (float bridges)

Western Maryland, 1105, 1420, 1438, 2832, 2921

Western Maryland at Port Covington, 3213, 3220

Western Maryland Cabin Branch floatbridge, 1438

"Western Maryland Railway Marine Equipment", ref. to article, 1427

Western Pacific Railroad Co. Job Manual, 2613

Western Maryland Trackside, by Jeremy Plant, Morning Sun pictorial of George Leilich's slides, rev. by J. Teichmoeller, listing relevant photos, 3620; reviewed again by Phil Sims 4124

Western Pacific, Rail‑Marine in San Francisco Bay, incl. fleet roster & operations, 2514‑2523 (biblio. 2521); errata in article see 2603 (roster 2522); job manual 2613; see followup with track plans etc. 2813‑2817; rev. of book chapter on WP tugs, 2835

Western Rivers, meaning of term, 1942

Western Rivers Inclines, details of operation, 1942, 2120� ‑ see also Cradles & Inclines

The Western Rivers Transfer Boat Project, 1802

Western Rivers Engineroom Cyclopoedium, 1947

Western Towboat, tug builder and operator, 2920, 3219, 3318

Western Tugboat (may mean Towboat), 3218

Western Union Telegraph Co. railroad car & cable barge, model, 3525

Wharf‑boat, Miss. River, 1943

Where Rails Meet the Sea, by Krieger, reviews of book, 2429, 2616, 2720; ‑ commentary and official errata list, 2825

Wheeling on the Ohio River, B&O, 3028 (ref. to article in Sentinel, Vol. 22 No.2, 2nd qtr. 2000, pp. 27‑30)

Whitcomb, 1320

White, Kelvin, 1442

White, Spencer ‑ see Spencer White

Whitney Bros. shipbuilder, 2518

Whitney, Scott, 1438

Whittier, Alaska, 1022, 1219, 2229

Whittier Provider, Alaska rail barge, 3318

Wicomico (PRR tug), 4125

WIF&SS Co. see West India Fruit & Steamship

Wiggins Ferry, St. Louise, source of information, 4231

Wilkes‑Barre (LV tug, ON258938, later Julia Moran), 3216, 3726

Willamette River carfloat operations, 1952

Wm. Cramp & Sons, shipbuilder, 2722

William B. Duncan (carferry), 1804

William Edenborn, sternwheel towboat, 2343, 3108

William T. Hart, 1436

Williamsburg (NH Tug), 1106

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as prototype for model railroad, 1927

 

Wills, Keith, 1021

Wilmington & Northern Branch of Reading RR, ref. to model article, 3121

Wilmington shipyards: mention of two books, 3825‑3826

Wilson, Alice, 1622

Wilson, Captain Ted, 1433, 2221

Wilson Pt., CT, 1014

Winch, hand, introduction on stick lighters, 2108

Windsor, Ontario (float service), 1115, 4130 (HO model version of track plan)

Windsor carferry for sale, 2803

Winter, Cal, FEC model railroad, in video, 3723

Winton/EMD power plants, 917

Wire‑stanchion railing, 1604

Wisby, Allen, 911, 1005, 1106, 1108, 1117, 1207, 1324, 1414, 1415, 1433, 1434, 1506, 1521, 2203, 3011, 3308, 3603‑3606

Wisconsin Clipper (projected conversion of Spartan), 3217

Wisconsin Maritime Museum (in Manitowoc), 2227, 3717

Wisner, Scott, 4203‑06 (tabulation of NY float bridges)

Witmer, Capt. J.R.N., 1012, 1022, 3115

Witte, James (Tug), 1005, 1118, 1119, 1219

Witte marine graveyard, 1623, 2617 (ref. to article in NY Times), 3122 & 3220 (ref. to articles in NY Tug Times)

WM, see Western Maryland

Wongus, Ray, 2921

Wooden barges, see RR Navy articles in Contents section

Wooden Barges (West Coast), ref. to article with cutaway drawing, 2347

Wooden‑hulled, 1115

Wood hulls on BEDT carfloats? ‑ 1953

Wood, rationale for using to model carfloats, & types, 1715

Work, Jack, 1433

Workers on rail‑marine: see First‑person accounts

Working on the Western Maryland Railway (stuff on marine), 2832

WWII see Convoy; also Carfloats in WW II

Wyoming, tug, 3221 (ref. to photo in Tugbitts)

Wyomissing (Reading tug), 4127

 

�[X]

X31 round roof boxcar, 1521

 

�[Y]

Yahoo rail‑marine group, 3223

Yard design, at Bush Terminal, 3710

Yards, see Float Yards

Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RR, 1804

Yerba Buena (ferry), 2516

Yerkes, Jack, 1932

Yoke, 1511

Yuehaitie No. 1 (Chinese train ferry), 3718, 3826

Yungkurth, Chuck, 2351

 

[Z]

Z‑drive, 3319

Z scale, 1622, 1934

Zaffo, George, 1617

Zahn, Frank, 1436

Zarowny, Randy, 917

Zimmerman, Karl, 916, 1438, 1617

Zippy the Pinhead, 4031

Zombie boat, 2116

Zombie floatbridges, 3125