Railroad Carfloat Pier

The wooden, fork-shaped pier extending into the water is a remnant of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway’s car ferry slip, built in nineteen fifty. Its most striking feature is a large, steel-frame freight tower located near the center of the structure, where a pair of metal truss towers are each capped by a heavy pulley wheel. These wheels once supported the movement of the slip, allowing it to adjust to the changing tides as crews loaded railcars onto barges.