This site is devoted to Railroad Ferries in Louisiana
http://lrs.railstuff.net/h/h-ferries.htm
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
At the risk of stretching this topic a bit, there were also carferries operated by West India Fruit & Steamship Co. between New Orleans or Miami and Havana. They were of a design quite different from the carferries on the Great Lakes.
There is also a rather small carferry operation across the Gulf of Mexico which provides a direct connection for Ferrosur at Coatzacoalcos with the Port of New Orleans.
http://www.cgrailway.com/
passengerfan wrote:Lets not forget the Canadian roads they operated a number of Carferries From North Sydney to Newfoundland at one time operated by CN. There was also those of the CN to PEI. CPR operated railferies in BC the largest they owned at one time was the Princess of Vancouver between Vancouver and Nanaimo. And there was also one large car ferry that operated to Alaska one time their are a number of barges that still operate to Alaska carrying railcars from Seattle to Alaska. TTFN Al
Railcar ferries still run between Vancouver and Nanaimo, now run by Dennis Washington's Seaspan Coastal Intermodal, they take cars from the CPR to Dennis Washington's Southern Railway of Vancouver Island(former Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway).
http://www.coastalintermodal.com
Did you know that CN also ran a railcar ferry between Vancouver, Victoria, and Cowichan Bay? The SS Canora, ran between Port Mann and Patricia Bay, Cowichan Bay, and Ogden Point and Victoria Inner Harbor until the early 1960's when it was retired and replaced by tug and barges and Seaspan rail ferries until CN's Vancouver Island rail operations were abandoned in 1990.
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