Station Review #137: Huntington, WV (Amtrak)
Huntington, WV is a station served by Amtrak's Cardinal train. The station is located at 8th Avenue and 10th Street in Huntington's South Side neighborhood. History Huntington, WV's history as a town is directly intertwined with the railroad. Originally, Huntington was the terminus for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and was a community planned from the ground up for this purpose. The original C&O depot was built in 1871. Multiple other railroads came to Huntington to compete with the C&O, including the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O). This depot was replaced in 1913 with a more grand building. Rail traffic to Huntington decreased following the US rail industry's bear collapse in the 1950s. As though it was a sign of the station's fate, The late 1960s was the time when Amtrak into existence, and with that the Amtrak Station Standardization Program. This meant that a new passenger station was to be built, in the same style as many others around th...