The great Shirley Povich on 1958 snow storm at Bowie..

You had to be a diehard horseplayer to venture to Bowie in mid-winter. Three years later, there would be this:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/199...train-derailed

I was on that train a couple of weeks before that, probably opening day in January that year. I still remember catching a nice-price horse ridden by Ollie Cutshaw.