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Indianapolis Union Station is a station served by Amtrak's Cardinal train and numerous intercity buses, most notably from Greyhound.  History Indianapolis Union Station was the second ever Union station in the United States, built in 1853 by the Madison and Indianapolis railroad. The original station building eventually became too small for the demand faced, and a newer large station building was built in 1888 with the leadership of the civil engineer Thomas Rodd. A large train shed built in a similar style to the likes of Newark Penn was built for the station in 1900.    There once was a time where one could get to fifteen different states with one train from Indianapolis station, with trains going to Chicago, Saint Louis, New York City, and Miami, as well as many destinations in between. Those days are no more. The fall of American passenger rail hit Indianapolis Union station  hard , and it never truly recovered. The most recent example of this is with...

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...