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car float
(redirected from Railroad barge)

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car float [′kär ‚flōt]
(naval architecture)
A barge with railroad tracks on its deck, used to carry railroad cars in harbors or inland waterways.


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For decades the 18-acre site on the edge of New York's East River was one of general urban squalor: slaughterhouses, a railroad barge landing and tenements that nearby high-rise Tudor City apartment houses turned their back on.
 
 
 
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