Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Gulfport, MS: History, Model Trains & Plane Museums and Ocean Port

Gulfport Museum of History: (Satellite)
TrainTastic! Train Museum formerly: Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum: (Satellite)
Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum: (Satellite)
Ocean Port: (Satellite)

Gulfport Museum of History


Street View, Jun 2022

This looks like it used to be the IC+L&N Union Station.
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.
Stephanie Martin, Jul 2024

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.
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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.
Ann Henderson, Jul 2024

This museum has a big building.
Street View, Feb 2016

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.
Cedar The Dentist, Aug 2022

And they have an opportunity for kids to blow off some steam.
Daniel Hill, Aug 2024

Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum


And just three blocks east of the model train museum is the plane museum.
Street View, May 2022

Curtis Martz, Aug 2022

S M, May 2021

Susan Sanchez-Vargas, Jul 2024
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Ocean Port


The ocean port is still operational and rail served. It looks like it handles at least containers, Dole fruit and grain.
Satellite

This is the grain elevator that is at the end of the dock.
Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

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.
Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024


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.
Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

I wonder if the military vehicles were leaving the country or coming back home.
Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024


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