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===Rail=== {{See also|CSX Transportation|Huntington (Amtrak station)}} [[File:AmtrakHton.jpg|thumb|The platform of the [[Huntington (Amtrak station)|Huntington Amtrak station]]]] Since its founding as the western terminus of the C&O Railroad, Huntington has served as a major break of bulk point between rail traffic and the Ohio River/[[Mississippi River]] watershed. The Huntington Division is still the largest in the [[CSX Transportation]] network. A large portion of the division's revenue comes from hauling coal out of the coalfields of West Virginia and Eastern [[Kentucky]]. Much of the coal is brought to the [[Port of Huntington-Tristate]] by train to be transported by river [[barge]]s to industrial centers in other parts of the United States. Huntington is in the company's Southern Region and is the largest of ten operating divisions on the network. The division comprises the former railroads [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway|Chesapeake and Ohio]] (C&O); [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad|Baltimore and Ohio]] (B&O); [[Western Maryland Railroad|Western Maryland]] (WM); [[Louisville and Nashville Railroad|Louisville and Nashville]] (L&N); and the Clinchfield. It serves the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. CSX's Huntington Division main office is in the historical former C&O passenger station in downtown Huntington. The building is home to the division's top managers, a centralized yardmasters and train dispatchers center, a freight car light repair shop, and a locomotive heavy repair facility in the city.<ref name="facebook" /> The city was once a major hub for passenger rail service, but it now accounts for a significantly smaller portion of rail traffic than in the early decades of the 20th century. The [[Amtrak]] station is on the [[Cardinal (train)|''Cardinal'']] line running three days a week between [[New York City]] and [[Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cardinal/Hoosier State|author=Amtrak|url=http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Route/Horizontal_Route_Page&c=am2Route&cid=1081256321680&ssid=134|access-date=June 17, 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711055310/http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak%2Fam2Route%2FHorizontal_Route_Page&c=am2Route&cid=1081256321680&ssid=134|archive-date=July 11, 2006|author-link=Amtrak}}</ref>
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