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<p>Philip, </p><p>An interesting coincidence, as I've just started working on a harbor theme with car floats myself. My inspiration came from an artical by Bernie Kempinski in Model Railroad Planning 2002. He has developed an N scale layout based on the C&O's Brooke Ave Yard in Norfolk, VA. This yard's only connection to other rail systems is via car floats -- there are no land connections. As such, (nearly) the entire operation can be placed in a 6' x 8' footprint and it all fits on a single (cleverly cut) sheet of ply (or foam)! There are lots of interesting structures to model and the terminal seemed to handle just about all varieties of freight cars: gons, box, flat, tank, refers, hoppers, etc. By using a removable float (built to scale that can carry up to 28 cars), the operations of this layout are endless.</p><p>Dave</p>
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