Artillery Thunder

Historical marker location:

1194 Carnifex Ferry Road, Keslers Cross Lanes, West Virginia

( Marker is on Carnifex Ferry Road (County Route 23) 1.1 miles south of Summersville Lake Road (West Virginia Route 129), on the right when traveling south.)

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.