Not to bring this thread back from the reaches of the grave.....
I remember seeing the Reading Company freight station as a boy along Prince Street. Unfortunately, the structure was badly damaged in a fire in the early 1990s when a homeless man crawled into a portion of the building with a candle to keep warm from the frigid temperatures of the winter nights. When he awoke, the candle had ignited many of his surroundings. I was in 5th grade at the time [which puts the fire around early 1992], and still remember those bits and pieces from the Lancaster New Era article.
After the rest of the structure was demolished, the lot remained vacant for a number of years until Lancaster showed interest in having its own baseball team and stadium. After the location on Fruitville Pike across from Red Rose Commons was nixed, they decided to build where the stadium now rests. The only things that remain of the Reading Company around the Dillerville Yard area is a few tracks, easily viewed from the Pedestrian Bridge connecting F&M with a parking lot.
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