search photos on palm beach port

[franckcombe]

Hi,

I'm a French railroad modeler. I would like to model the port of palm beach (fl) at ho scale. I discover this small harbor with interesting railroad operation with the book of Lance Mindheim. I will built it in modular section. It's an interesting harbor because it's very compact (for an harbor of course !) 30 feet long for 20 inches wide. It's perfect for a switching game.The traffic is various (oil, intermodal, container, concrete, sugar, box, wood, ...).

I find few photos on internet (the official site of the harbor of pal beach, train forum, ...). I find a lot of aerial view from bing.


I would like to know if anyone in this forum has photos on palm beach port to share with me ? I know the best way is to take a flight to miami and take photos but from france it's quite expensive.

Here an aerial view of the harbor for those who are interested in.
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[Russ Bellinis]

Wow, that is a small harbor, or perhaps I should say a small port, the harbor itself doesn't look all that small. Only two slips has me wondering what sort of ships call there? I can't imagine container ships stopping there unless they are like some of the small ones that used to stop at the terminal I used to work at. Those ships were a kind of combination of break bulk in the hold with containers on deck.

[dwight77]

Hi:
If you go back to google maps and look at the arial view you can get a pretty good pic of the site.
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dwight77

[franckcombe]

For this port, there is cargo, tung, barge for transport container , molasses, bulk, sugar, concrete.


I have try google and I discover the option of getting photos .

I prefer bing because of the aerial view that you don't have on google.

[dwight77]

My apologies......the website I gave you only takes you to google maps...even thought it is the site you get when you get to the Port of Palm Beach. Not sure I understand what happened there but.....
If you go to google maps, enter Port of Palm Beach, and do the "satellite" view, you will get a good view of the port.
You indicated they had sugar, concrete etc......don't forget the incoming cargos of square grouper.....ie...illegal imported items.
I know, you don't want to model that, but in that area if you want to be proto-typical............................just kidding.
dwight77

[franckcombe]

for illegal import I'm not sure that we need rail to transport it because of the size

[tomustang]

I find a lot of aerial view from bing.

I have to mention (since many people still don't know) about the Birds Eye View in bing, I was just checking the link you posted and can get a lot more detail out of the landscape, if you haven't known

[franckcombe]

Bird eye view from bing is a fantastic tools for us with precise measures . But for detail, we need human eye view (ie photos). Fortunatly I got it from yahoo group members focused on fec railways and florida.

[fast car]

Hi,

I'm a French railroad modeler. I would like to model the port of palm beach (fl) at ho scale. I discover this small harbor with interesting railroad operation with the book of Lance Mindheim. I will built it in modular section. It's an interesting harbor because it's very compact (for an harbor of course !) 30 feet long for 20 inches wide. It's perfect for a switching game.The traffic is various (oil, intermodal, container, concrete, sugar, box, wood, ...).

I find few photos on internet (the official site of the harbor of pal beach, train forum, ...). I find a lot of aerial view from bing.


I would like to know if anyone in this forum has photos on palm beach port to share with me ? I know the best way is to take a flight to miami and take photos but from france it's quite expensive.

Here an aerial view of the harbor for those who are interested in.
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You may want to procede South to Lake Mabel at Port Everglades (Fort Lauderdale). We have left from here on several cruises and the port itself is bustling with several types of ship traffic. There is also an extremely large tank farm located at this location and while several of the tracks have been removed, their foot print still exists. There is a power plant at the same location along with numerous containers storage locations.



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[franckcombe]

thanks you for the link, it's a very interesting place also.