Hoboken Shore Railroad, initials HSRR, was a New Jersey railroad which was created around 1954. It took over the activities of the Hoboken Manufacturers Railroad, initials HMRR. This railroad owned only 0.221 miles (0.356 km) of mainline but leased about 1906 the longer route of the Hoboken Shore Road operated since 1897 by the Hoboken Railroad Warehouse and Steamship Connecting Company, initials HRRWH&SSConCo or HRRW&SSCCO.
Locomotives of the predecessor HMRR around 1930
Image: Hoboken Shore Railroad No. 1 cropped
Image: Hoboken Shore Road 2
Image: Hoboken Shore Road 3
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.