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[edit] River Nile
Are any of the ferries on the River Nile train ferries?
Tabletop 10:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Rail causeway from India to Sri Lanka
A ferry though not necessarily a train ferry links India and Sri Lanka over a narrow and shallow stretch of water. It replaces a former railway line over a man-made causeway [citation needed], which was destroyed by a cyclone.
Is this a misunderstanding of this map? The inundated "bridge" is a natural feature, flooded within a geological timescale. I suggest a deletion. {{Dubious}} tag added. --Old Moonraker (talk) 17:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
- Further: The "bridge" to Sri Lanka may have been washed away as recently as 1500 BCE, see here, and not as I suggested above. In the 1950s the ferry service was timed to connect with rail services from Madras [1]. Many online encyclopedias (e.g., Encarta) mistakenly call the steamer service a train ferry, presumably for this reason. This line to the terminal of the steamer service was itself washed away in 1964—see Dhanushkodi—possibly a further source of confusion. In short, it's not a train ferry and shouldn't really be in the article. -- Old Moonraker (talk) 14:27, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
- Now deleted. --Old Moonraker (talk) 18:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] U.S. to Cuba
Three are listed, without citation. Are we sure that the New York to Havana was a train ferry, given the distance? I have changed this to Palm Beach, as per West India Fruit and Steamship Company. I will research further, but please reinstate if I am wrong. --Old Moonraker (talk) 16:36, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Key West - Havana Train Ferry
This train ferry service is mentioned in several Cuban sources and even used by Hershey Company to provide direct freight cars operating from their Cuban chocolate factory to the companys main factories in the United States. This link was in common operation at least in the 1920´s and in 1930´s. It was said to be operated by Florida Southern Railroad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.115.118.82 (talk) 07:55, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Burma
There has been since 1925 a ( train ) ferry service over 7.000 metre wide River Salween estuary between Martaban and Moulmein ( South ). Actually the ferries which have provided the service were not technically " pure " train ferries but at least in 1942 to 1945 the Japanese relaid to the deck of the ferry two metre gauge rails which made it possible to transfer even locomotives to Burma Railway main network from isolated Moulmein South - Ye railway section. When the new 415 km railway connecting Bangkok in Siam and Moulmein in Burma was completed in October 1943 the importance of the Martaban - Moulmein railway ferry increased. One "unofficial " source even claims that the Japanese Military Adminstration in Southern Burma introduced from Japan one old small train ferry which had been held there in reserve, to operate this Martaban - Moulmein ( train ) ferry service.
[edit] Vietnam - Cambodia
This rail ferry service was operated by the Japanese Southern Army ( Railway Department ) located at Saigon in 1942 to 1945 between Mytho ( My Tho ) in Cochin China and Phnom Pehn in Cambodia along the River Mekong. This service made it possible for the Japanese to provide a railway link all the way from Singapore to Fusan in Korea ( then called Chosen ) by late 1944. It should be noted that all a round year shipping service from South China Sea up to Phnom Pehn can be provided by ships up to 5.000 ton ( in high water season 8.000 ton ). Also here is claimed an introducion of old Japanese train ferry taken out of reserve where it was held by Imperial Japanese Navy to River Mekong as early as in spring 1942. This rail ferry service was provided as an alternative for proposed 250 km railway from Saigon to Phnom Pehn which was started by the Japanese in 1942 but not completed in August 1945 by the time of unconditional surrendering of Japan to the Allied Powers.
[edit] Car ferries in Ludington
I ran across these two sources and think they might be good to put into the article on the Pere Marquette Car Ferry.
Clarke Historical Library Car ferry Pere Marquette 18 left Ludington for Milwaukee shortly before midnight, Sept. 8, 1910; capt. Peter Kilty. 29 loaded R.R. freight cars & 62 people ... clarke.cmich.edu/collar_helen_beaverisland/biok.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages Clarke Historical Library - Saginaw County The Rail Road Excursion; The Flint and Pere Marquette Rail Road. Detroit, MI: 1862. Indian and Pioneer History of the Saginaw Valley. ... clarke.cmich.edu/localhistory/Saginaw.htm - 74k - Cached - Similar pages 7&6=thirteen (talk) 01:09, 3 April 2008 (UTC)Stan
