Train ferry
A train ferry is a ferry which was designed to carry railway vehicles. Train ferries are used where it is not possible or practical to build a bridge. Some train ferries were built to also carry cars or passengers, in addition to trains.
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Car and train ferry across the Strait of Messina
Train ferry across the Qiongzhou Strait
Train Ferry Media
Interior of a roll-on roll-off train ferry in Villa San Giovanni, Italy
The 'Floating Railway', opened in 1850 as the first roll-on roll-off train ferry in the world.
Loaded train ferry approaches dock in Detroit, Michigan, United States in April 1943.
Locomotive with slopeback tender, loading the Sunset Limited onto the train-ferry Solano at Port Costa, San Francisco, Southern Pacific R.R.
Classification yard and two docking train ferries in Detroit, April 1943. A third ferry slip can be seen at the bottom of the photograph.
A CFR Class EA locomotive being loaded into the Trelleborg-Sassnitz railway ferry on its way from Västerås, Sweden to Brașov, Romania, 1966
MV Georges-Alexandre-Lebel train ferry of the COGEMA in Matane, Canada
Loading and unloading operations of a RORO passenger train ferry, Strait of Messina, Italy