The Donut Factory sounds like a very interesting industry to model and have loads switched in & out of. Some of the very small RR Stations are also of very unique & interesting design. The old style (Iron?) bridge over the Patapsco River is just gorgeous and I could see it being modeled in brass for someone and it making a spectacular addition to any model railroad.
That coaling station mentioned was actually called Williams Run Water Station or Lees-Williams Water Station. Just up the tracks towards Ellicott City about 1/2 mile was the Grays Water Tank built by my 3rd great grandfather Cornelius Cavey's brothers, William and Nathaniel Cavey in 1869 and then sold to B&O. My family, the Cavey's, lived above these on the hill for almost 100 years and my great grandfather George Cavey and my grandfather lived directly across the river from Williams Run Water station. My mom remembers hearing them filling the trains with coal as a little girl. She said it sounded like rain on a tin roof.
I remember a large concrete coaling station structure laying on its side next to the tracks just below Ellicott City in the mid 1970s. Wondering if it is the same one?
In reference to the photo at 0:49 seconds of the relay station was clearly NOT taken in 1943. Very clearly there are some cars behind it that are from the 1970's
