Enjoyed watching this! It's too bad this railroad went out of business, along with the successor Bay Coast Railroad. The yard at Cape Charles has been torn up and from what I hear they're planning on putting up luxury waterfront condominiums in its place. Glad you got to see it!
Thank you for the excellent look at car float operations! Looks like a dangerous job where any number of things could go wrong but they obviously had it down to a science. It was interesting to observe the alternating loading and unloading of the float but that makes sense for balance. A very cool video!
Fantastic video! Also, at 21:52 title "Pokomoke" actually was wrong, actually called "Pocomoke" or "Pocomoke City"... Anyway this was so amazing video as seen! (Thumb up) and like!
Great video. I have a video I hope to upload today from when I work at ESHR on the Little creek side from 2001-2005. I can't wait to see your part two!
The car float apron has locking bars to hold the tracks in alignment while the cars are switched. Perfect ship handling is only needed until the locks are engaged.
Eastern shore railroad is out of business now they ripped out all the track scrapped their units except for 3 and it will be turned into a bike path :( 1:17
lightnindash 3804 I read somewhere that they had problems with the float around 2004 or so. Since float traffic virtually died after the Conrail split in 1999 they had no incentive to fix it.
When I worked there we floated 2 gun barrels from the uss missouri and also plasser american equipment to the shore. When I left in August 2014 we no longer used the car float at all.
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Enjoyed watching this! It's too bad this railroad went out of business, along with the successor Bay Coast Railroad. The yard at Cape Charles has been torn up and from what I hear they're planning on putting up luxury waterfront condominiums in its place. Glad you got to see it!
Thank you for the excellent look at car float operations! Looks like a dangerous job where any number of things could go wrong but they obviously had it down to a science. It was interesting to observe the alternating loading and unloading of the float but that makes sense for balance. A very cool video!
Fantastic video! Also, at 21:52 title "Pokomoke" actually was wrong, actually called "Pocomoke" or "Pocomoke City"... Anyway this was so amazing video as seen! (Thumb up) and like!
Great video. I have a video I hope to upload today from when I work at ESHR on the Little creek side from 2001-2005. I can't wait to see your part two!
I worked that job for acouple years. Let me tell you. In the winter. Its damn cold on them barges shipping those trains across the bay
Uncredible movie! I've never seen this...
Too late now, the railroad and float operations are finished.
Fascinating. Looks like that float operation was an anachronism even then!
I can just imagine how hard it is for the boat to park exactly where the freight or engine won’t derail
The car float apron has locking bars to hold the tracks in alignment while the cars are switched. Perfect ship handling is only needed until the locks are engaged.
fmnut oh ok because I was wondering why would they just leave freight vulnerable to falling off the boat anyways thanks for telling me
Great video ! Love it ! Thanks for sharing ! Martin
26:05 look at those gas prices. I lived in pocomoke and always seemed like the train only came through at night.
It mostly did, I was lucky to catch them in daylight a few times.
114 a gallon wow
My first time at the gas pump was in 1969. 27.9 cents a gallon.
@@fmnut too cool thank u for these awesome videos and time
Eastern shore railroad is out of business now they ripped out all the track scrapped their units except for 3 and it will be turned into a bike path :( 1:17
Yes. I have detailed the history of the Eastern Shore in my Tidewater Rails video:
ruclips.net/video/htEF0j0Bw-A/видео.htmlsi=Qr29Hz7rpzFczS2k
Excellent footage Mate. Do you have any footage of Green ALCO C420 "Canonie"? #200 EX LIRR
Sorry, no. I have slides of it but they were running all geeps by the time I got there with video.
two things: one, that tug had an awesome Detroit diesel (i think) in it. two, is the car float still in service?
lightnindash 3804 I read somewhere that they had problems with the float around 2004 or so. Since float traffic virtually died after the Conrail split in 1999 they had no incentive to fix it.
When I worked there we floated 2 gun barrels from the uss missouri and also plasser american equipment to the shore. When I left in August 2014 we no longer used the car float at all.