A Vital Link

Historical marker location:

Lansing, West Virginia

( Marker is on Fayette Station Road (County Route 82) 2.7 miles south of the Canyon Rim Visitor Center, on the right when traveling south.)

Fayette Station Bridge. New River Gorge National River.

The first electric railroad in the world was built in West Virginia in 1888. The line ran between Huntington and Guyandotte and was powered by electricity generated from a hydroelectric plant on the Ohio River.