Believe me there is a occasional … box of food stuffs that gets lost and needs special handling after it has been signed off by all concerned. =) I recall that samples would be made availible to us as well from time to time. One of the best was Salsa from Mexico that was really good. I think it took us two about a week to eat 6 pounds worth. whew. None of that liquid stuff you get in the store.
I was taken to the yards as a child before the big stadium was dropped into that area. I dont remember much, but I recall the platform and remember one trip where a covered hopper derailed along with a boxcar with a work gang gathered under a wheel trying to get the whole thing back on the rail.
I think there were other yards in the area. Western Maryland, Pennsy and Ma and Pa had yards or access to them but not necessarily at Camden.
I remember seeing Camden Yard very late in its life as a railyard on a couple of school trips to Baltimore, which would have been in the late 1980s (think 1987/1989 which would have been sixth and eight grade). Thinking that had to be only a couple of years before the stadium was built, but it made quite an impression on me - remember seeing all sorts of cool things there then (alas, didn’t have the foresight or ability to photograph it then).
Do think that Camden Yards had a better fate than the Western Maryland yard in Baltimore which got turned into a Wal-Mart!
Ma & Pa had a yard up on Falls Road. The Baltimore Trolley Museum uses some of the line and the old roundhouse is a county maintenance shed. Lot of old M&Pa buildings. The photos are outstanding, thanks to whomever posted them.
My daughter and her husband lived in Hampstead in Carroll County north of Bal’mer and we visited often over the ten years they were there. Two of my grandchildren were born in Baltimore Hospital. As you can see by my avatar, I became a convert to the old B&O. Also to crab cakes.
I also have some photos of the modern, (1987) M&Pa taken in Hanover, PA on old PRR trackage. Mt. Clare station is one of my favorite places on earth.
B&O did come into St. Louis, but we were the end of the line.