Boat Nerd

Not technically a source for ocean ports, but the boat nerd web site is full of pictures of lakers being loaded with grain at various Great Lakes ports. 

For Ken

Hi Ken,

have a look at   https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/modeling-grain-elevators-and-feed-mills-12209969 There is some stuff on local Aussie grain-handling port facilities that should be useful. Check out the links in my postings. That should at least get your thinking started, 

Buffalo

Ken I assume you've looked at the info on the Buffalo grain elevators? Are they the few photo's you've found?

Chris

National Film Board Canada

Here's an appetizer:

https://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_handling_in_canada/

Very interesting film. More if you look around.

what era, what locale

Like most things, this has changed over the years.

Also, if thinking about USA or Canada, it is important to know whether before or after the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway about 1959. Before that, vessels on the Great Lakes were specialized, and ocean-going ships could not reach the Great Lakes.

grain elevators

OK what I did was purchase  Elevator A from Chuck Hitchcock when he tore down his KC terminal RR. I've relocated it to Burrows Lot yard in Buffalo NY on my Buffalo Line. It will be loading export grain into ships that are Ocean going via the Seaway. Era is the late 60's into the mid 70's. I know the Seaway killed off most of this traffic years earlier but it's a bit of modelers license. In the mid 70's and early 80's  I hauled grain to the Tidewater Grain terminal in Philadelphia . They loaded ships with inbound rail and truck grain. I wish I had walked down to the pier to see how it was handled there. ---------  Ken

Great Lakes Grain

Ken, 

A good amount of grain is still exported from US and CA ports off the Great Lakes via "salties" to this day. I would imagine in your time frame Buffalo was moving a great deal of grain to export over the water. 

Seattle and Tacoma Washington both

have what you're looking for.  Go to Google earth and take a closer look.  Best wishes.

Temco Tacoma

CHS at Superior, WI

 Here is the American Mariner loading grain at the CHS elevator in Superior, WI a few years ago. Lots more salties load here than domestic ships, this was a little unusual. 

Jim

I had not heard that he was

I had not heard that he was building a new layout or tearing down his KC layout. Is he building something new and if so what is it going to be? I know that is a side trip from your OP but was curious since it came up. Also rather interesting about the seaway opening in 1959 and that being the year I model. These topics just continue to leak useful info from everywhere. That last bit of info is something that would be easy to find via the web, but had it not been mentioned it would not have been something I would have checked on.

streetview

https://goo.gl/maps/dzu49AstEPH2 Seattle

https://goo.gl/maps/orkGA3EyMyt Kalama

https://goo.gl/maps/npRWKWRxmqs Portland ,also has inland barge unloading for transfer to ocean ships.

I could be wrong....

....but wasn't the Grain facilities in Buffalo, NY unloading grain?  I bring this up because there were several flour mills in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, with a few still operational.  Though i'm 20 minutes away, I haven't spent much time studying the non-steel industries in Buffalo, but I know it always has been a commercial hub (first for water traffic because of the Erie Barge, then later Erie Canal, then railroads).  But I do remember driving by several flour mills along the Buffalo River and Lake Erie.  

FWIW

Ken L.

@Ken - grain traffic at Buffalo

Ken, you are certainly correct for the 1950s and 60s, when Buffalo was a major center for milling grain and shipping flour. Think of those neat BCK box cars.

IDK how things changed in later decades. There's a very active Buffalo group on FB and several who will know.

Hitchcock's ATSF

Chucks RR was torn down this summer. He has moved to a smaller post retirement home. I understand he is building a new RR but n o idea what it will be. I picked up the Elevator A in Sept 2018. ---  Ken 

elevator A

Jim that's exactly what I am looking for !!! I'm thinking the elevated pieces on the upper conveyor are cable guides for the grain chutes to be lowered and raised . it gives me the basics of what is needed . ---- Ken

Hope you are modeling in Z

Hope you are modeling in Z scale in a hangar...

Jose.