Ghosts of Chessie

Inlaid into the floor of the waiting room at Prince, WV, is the C&O’s mascot “Chessie.”

Situated deep in the New River Gorge National River area is a little-known Amtrak station in Prince, West Virginia. In the late spring of 2018, my family and I used it as a jumping off point for a trip on Amtrak to Yellowstone National Park. The station is still served three days a week on Amtrak’s Cardinal line and is in CSX’s New River subdivision.

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