Bay Ridge Branch
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The Bay Ridge Branch is a rail line owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway in New York City. It is the longest freight-only line of the LIRR, connecting the Montauk Branch and CSX Transportation's Fremont Secondary at Glendale, Queens with the Upper New York Bay at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Looking west from 14th Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn
Triple track sharing an open cut with BMT Sea Beach Line (left)
Crossing Ralph Avenue
Car float
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A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles, or to locations they could not otherwise go. An unpowered barge, it is towed by a tugboat or pushed by a towboat.
A railroad car float in the Upper New York Bay, 1919. A tugboat (towboat) stack is visible behind the middle car.
Woodfibre, British Columbia
Car float in Howe Sound
The car float docks at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York.