Sure do - among many other groups that provide transatlantic car float transport (and Extra, according to reddit? If anyone has more info I’d love it) service, Foss operates a regular train ferry between Seattle and Alaska, and (last I checked) has scheduled routes between their Seattle terminal and Japan!
(the above is one of the barges used to connect to the alaskan rail network, but I don’t think it’s used for transoceanic trips)
I don’t think there’s two larger things on the planet I could have mixed up lmao. Coulda sworn you said pacific…
Anways, Seattle <> Alaska is indeed a rail line. By every common definition I have ever seen, rail lines do not have to be contiguous sections of track, they are just an established route or collection of routes.
Railway line, railroad line, rail line, or train line:
- A railway route connecting two or more places or other railway routes[200]
But to answer the original question yes there are several transatlantic rail-lines, one very high traffic example being Mobile Alabama <> Coatzacoalcos Veracruz
(Picture of a retired ship from the route via wikipedia. Honestly, it looks so much more badass than it has any reason to)
Sure do - among many other groups that provide transatlantic car float transport (and Extra, according to reddit? If anyone has more info I’d love it) service, Foss operates a regular train ferry between Seattle and Alaska, and (last I checked) has scheduled routes between their Seattle terminal and Japan!
(the above is one of the barges used to connect to the alaskan rail network, but I don’t think it’s used for transoceanic trips)
So not only is it not a rail line, it’s not even near the Atlantic. That’s the Pacific!
I don’t think there’s two larger things on the planet I could have mixed up lmao. Coulda sworn you said pacific…
Anways, Seattle <> Alaska is indeed a rail line. By every common definition I have ever seen, rail lines do not have to be contiguous sections of track, they are just an established route or collection of routes.
But to answer the original question yes there are several transatlantic rail-lines, one very high traffic example being Mobile Alabama <> Coatzacoalcos Veracruz
(Picture of a retired ship from the route via wikipedia. Honestly, it looks so much more badass than it has any reason to)
Just don’t be on a river boat anywhere near that barge and hopefully you’ll be fine
Be a badass way to go out though. Up there with that alaskan trawler that got sunk because it ran into a moose.
Trawler had it comin
Would not want to be shoving that barge during a storm.
I bet it’d make for a damn good story if you survive…