Rice Harbor Series: Build a car float part 1 - the hull

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Rice Harbor Series: Build a car float part 1 - the hull

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Hi David!! Your step by step videos are great. I really enjoy watching them and they are extremely helpful. Keep up the great work.

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Great video!

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Great idea using the PECO Inspection pits. I’ll bet this would also work well for making tracks set in concrete, ie: grade crossings, warehouse areas etc.

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Great video-I realize your car float will be permanent, but a neat trick would be to build 2 or 3 carfloats so that each op session would use different cars. A tug would also be a nice addition , I look forward to the second part of this car float.

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hi david I am from Ireland and like your video tips and I will take some of your tips into my layout as I am going a layout about irish railway in the early 80,s

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Great video as always. I was wondering where you found the pictures of the N&W car float. I model the N&W and would like to add marine ops. Any info would be appreciated

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Good building tips for future use and funny outtakes!

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The video was both informative and entertaining, well done

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Great info and a very interesting project as a way to move equipment off the layout

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really interesting David

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One of my future projects is to build a scene displaying the two NC&StL railroad car ferries that made a 22-mile run on the Tennessee River between Huntsville, Alabama and Guntersville, Alabama. The photos I have been able to find appear to show a 2-track car float, each track with capacity for about four cars. Original push-power for the two ferry operations were a pair of old-time riverboats propelled by stern-mounted paddlewheels. The photos that I have found do not give a clear indication of the track set-up of the float bridge, but it appears that the track switching occurred prior to the cars going onto the float bridge. It appears that this also is the setup for your layout. Will your future videos on the construction of the Rice Harbor car float include any details about that portion of the track setup?

Also, your photo of the NS car float showed a single access track onto the float, with an extremely sharp-turn switching setup after the track entered the car float. Any idea of what type of switch device was used on the prototype, and do you know of any model railroad switches that might imitate that particular setup