My home town had an almost model RR type of team track running parallel to the main street, alonside the B&O yard. It ran through a car wricking yord that had something like a Burro crane, from there to behind our daily newspaper (ink, newsprint, linotype metal?) then behind a feed store, then about another 300 feet through clinke ballast (steam loco days) to end at a couple old ties stapled into the ground. I most remember walking past on the way to a theater in downtown, and seeing a ventilated boxcar (Watermelon car!), the screened doors over the interior, and a BUNCH of watermelons on the ground outside it. BTW, I DO have one of those ventilated boxcars, an old Ambroid 1 in 5000 kit.