page_title: Train ferry
section_title: Mexico
hierarchical_section_title: Train ferry / Examples / Mexico
caption_attribution_description: English: Bali Sea FerryRail Español: Ferrobuque Bali Sea IMO Number: 8106068 MMSI Number: 563635000 Callsign: 9VNR Length: 175 m Beam: 35 m Information about Bali Sea may be found at IMO 8106068.A ship can change name and flag state through time, but the IMO number remains the same through the hull's entire lifetime. As a result, it can be useful to identify a ship by using the IMO number.
context_page_description: A train ferry is a ship designed to carry railway vehicles. Typically, one level of the ship is fitted with railway tracks, and the vessel has a door at the front and/or rear to give access to the wharves. In the United States, train ferries are sometimes referred to as "car ferries", as distinguished from "auto ferries" used to transport automobiles. The wharf has a ramp, and a linkspan or "apron", balanced by weights, that connects the railway proper to the ship, allowing for the water level to rise and fall with the tides.
  While railway vehicles can be and are shipped on the decks or in the holds of ordinary ships, purpose-built train ferries can be quickly loaded and unloaded by roll-on/roll-off, especially as several vehicles can be loaded or unloaded at once. A train ferry that is a barge is called a car float or rail barge.
context_section_description: CG Railway, connecting the Port of Mobile, Alabama, USA and Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico.  It is served by the BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, CSX Transportation, Kansas City Southern Railway, and the Norfolk Southern Railway.
caption: MV Bali Sea along the CG Railway loads up with Ferrosur trains in Coatzacoalcos
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