{"id":1155,"date":"2008-04-18T15:20:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2008-04-20T21:47:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T02:47:33","slug":"the-ferry-ferry-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"The Ferry Fairy visits&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>only temporarily though&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180408cl.jpg\" title=\"Walthers Carfloat\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180408c.jpg\" alt=\"walthers carfloat\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180408dl.jpg\" title=\"Walthers Carfloat\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180408d.jpg\" title=\"180408d.jpg\" alt=\"walthers carfloat\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark let me borrow his Walther&#8217;s Carfloat for a while to get some dimensions from it as I am thinking of scratching building some for the Terminal.  It fits right in nice as the Walther&#8217;s version is correct for this area.  Even the size is right, 17 40&#8242; cars.  I am also waiting on some drawings of carfloats from this area as well, hopefully between the two I can come up with something suitable.<\/p>\n<p>It does reveal one flaw in my design though. The water level is a bit low, by about 1\/2&#8243; or so.  At this level it might be close to the low tide level of the Harlem River.  The float dock would be angled down to reach the float if left this way.  I might try to raise it up a bit so it isn&#8217;t so distracting, but that will be a bit of a job.<\/p>\n<p>Also, had I made the water 1&#8243; wider I could have fit in a tug, which would have been a very nice scene.  Perhaps if I add material to raise the water level I could make it a bit wider without it looking funny.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to give that some thought.<\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>only temporarily though&#8230; Mark let me borrow his Walther&#8217;s Carfloat for a while to get some dimensions from it as I am thinking of scratching building some for the Terminal. It fits right in nice as the Walther&#8217;s version is correct for this area. Even the size is right, 17 40&#8242; cars. I am also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}