Gulfport Museum of History: (
Satellite)
TrainTastic! Train Museum formerly: Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum: (
Satellite)
Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum: (
Satellite)
Gulfport Museum of History
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| Street View, Jun 2022 |
This looks like it used to be the IC+L&N Union Station.
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| 1954/58 Gulfport North and South Quads @ 24,000 |
Radios used to be big so they were packaged as fine furniture. It looks like this one has a big speaker.
This video highlights the railfan action at the museum. This photo is taken from the Amtrak platform along the CSX/L&N track so the train is going south on the CN/IC track. I presume that it is headed to the
ocean port.
TrainTastic! Train Museum formerly: Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum
I found this museum while looking for the museum in the above video. It looks like they have a Lego town in the layout.
This museum has a big building.
Judging from the photos and videos on Google Maps, they have a huge normal layout and some smaller layouts. This stuck me as the strangest layout.
And they have an opportunity for kids to blow off some steam.
Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum
And just three blocks east of the model train museum is the plane museum.
Ocean Port
The ocean port is still operational and rail served. It looks like it handles at least containers, Dole fruit and grain.
This is the grain elevator that is at the end of the dock.
I had assumed that the elevator exported grain and loaded ships. But the long conveyor on the left makes me think they unload ships to import grain.
When I saw all of these military vehicles, I assumed the port can handle
RORO ships. And note that in the above photo there are military vehicles loaded on train cars. And then I spotted the
Liberty Peace in the background of this photo, which is a RORO that is 199m long and 32m wide.
I wonder if the military vehicles were leaving the country or coming back home.
