It's been 7 years (10/2012) since my husband, our adult daughter, her fiance,' and I purchased…read moretickets on the New River Train from Huntington to Hinton WV for Railroad Days (I can honestly say, it wasn't the most reasonably priced event that I had ever experienced). You may wonder why I choose now to review our experience on New River Train, let me just say, "it was an experience that we wouldn't soon forget." The scenery on the way to and from Hinton was lovely. Our visit to Hinton during the Railroad Days was informative and enjoyable. Unfortunately, the trip on the New River Train was horrendous. Being all of our first trip on a train, possibly we had great assumptions. Expecting the train trip to be the highlight of our day trip to Hinton WV/Railroad Days. Physically, the train trip was comfortable but the atmosphere of the trip to and our return trip on the New River Train was "dampened" by the coachman (I believe that would be his title and unfortunately I do not recall his name. I can read in other reviews that I'm not the first to be "disappointed" in the "personality of the coachman in our cabin. Apparently several coachmen are 'unpleasant.') The only way I could describe the personality of this coachman is rude and inpatient. We and in talking with other passengers on our specific train, our opinion was justified. We were all appalled at this coachman's rudeness. Most of us as we were all in agreement, that this man's position/job should have been anywhere other than be responsible for the hospitality (and in promoting) of the New River Train. Also during our train trip to and from Hinton, a politician found that he had a captive audience in our cabin (and we could see through the doors at the ends of other cabins on either side, that his man also found captive audiences in the other cabins). Most of we, passengers, asked our coachman to please ask this politician and his 'entourage' to please refrain from campaigning during our trip. The coachman made it very clear to the passengers, who asked that this politician and his group not subject us to this ridiculous situation. He told us that the politician had just as much right to be on this train and speak as he wished as we did. The coachman did not approach this politician and his group. On the return trip on the New River Train to Huntington, though, we patrons, (and I say that lightly because most of us had decided that we would never be patrons of any passenger train associated with the New River Train again), several of us approached this politician and told him how inappropriate his "campaigning' on this fall foliage New River Train was and how we felt like a captive audience. Of course, the politician and his 'entourage' attempted to explain his right to campaign, etc., etc. Then many of us, responded by 'sharing' with this politician, "that being understandable, yes, it was his and any of our rights to speak for any cause that we thought was important because it was not posted anywhere that it restricted/not permitted, if we felt it was an important issue. We expressed to this politician that this trip was a pleasure trip, a family excursion, one that we had looked forward to as a quiet, enjoyable trip but with his decision to campaign, he made this trip anything but enjoyable. This 'situation,' also should have been a consideration of others and was not an appropriate time to campaign, in light of this politician's decision. Unfortunately, those in our small group (and I'm sure many others) on that late October of 2012 New River Train excursion, have decided that this would be our last trip on the New River Train from anywhere in West Virginia. The rudeness, etc. of the coachman, his 'inability' consider all of the other passengers feelings and the 'inconsiderate' politician and his entourage, we would NEVER consider changing our opinion of any New River Train excursions.

We took the new river train on 10/ 21/17. Our car had no AC coming back and the car was so hot!…read moreThere were other empty seats in cars that were cooler and the head of our car was so rude, I don't' think if we were dying he would have moved us! I have a handicapped daughter that could have been effected very badly and I get very sick in heat. Apologies don't really help when we find them sitting in the cooler cars. We did get a bottle of water, but that wasn't enough for our misery!

Look out this is the four spires monument. It's easy to see and it's just kind of hanging out in…read morethe center of town for all to come look at go check it out.

The dedicated area of riverfront is modest, with concrete steps leading down to the banks of a…read morerather messy industrial river, a large waterfront amphitheater, and various seats and signage. They had restrooms, which were in pretty unpleasant condition. There were locals there from a wide variety of backgrounds, as this seemed to be one of the few opportunities to get to the waterfront around the town's floodwall. There's not much to actually do other than sit around, and given the surrounding wilderness is so much prettier than this, I struggle to see it as having anything other than limited use. And it needed better maintenance.

It was a sunny early April afternoon when I visited this park. It was obvious people were just…read moregetting their boats out for the season because they were all over the place on this weekend afternoon. There are plenty of trees and flowers. Places for kids to play and parents to gather. We found ourselves a place to just sit by the water and talk about all the things around us. It was a nice place to relax and take a break from touring the town and Marshall campus.

Love this place! So cool to see all the local stuff showcased...artisans, authors, etc. A great…read moregateway to HWV.

From the owner: The Red Caboose is a regional artisan center and gift shop operated by the Huntington Area…read moreConvention & Visitors Bureau. The shop, located in the Visitors Center at Heritage Station represents more than 200 local and regional creatives. The shop carries original fine art, t-shirts, artisan glass, local interest books, handcrafted jewelry, artisan food products, souvenirs such as postcards and magnets, and much, much more. Take a piece of Huntington home.

Horrible customer service and pricing! Rude workers, only open a few hours, when it states 10-6…read more Price is not set, goes up for every 10 seats sold! Greyhound used to be an awesome way to travel. No more.

So pissed!!! I got hold of agent.... Quoted me 47 with taxes included. From Huntington WV to…read moreColumbus Ohio. I purchased ticket because he told me today only price. So I check my bank account.. And was charged 59 dollars. Called right away and agent again lied to me and said if I had bought from station it would have been 80 dollars. But I went on line it said 40 dollars plus 5 dollar fee so would have only cost 45 still cheaper than 59 dollars. Bottom line is watch out for secret charges. They totally lied to me.... So please find another means of transportation. I will only wait for the day that this poor company gets shut down soon!

Had a nice visit to the museum with the wife and kids. Lots of interesting stuff inside and plenty…read moreto look at for a couple of hours. The short concrete trail was well maintained but couldn't make out where the branching trails were. Everything seemed to be overgrown which was kind of a bummer. Really enjoyed the firearms collection. Staff were very friendly and gave us a little tour of the conservatory which the kids loved. They also enjoyed the craft room and the gift shop. Would recommend it for a chill day out.

When I was at the museum, Hurricane Helene came through there in September 2024. The staff was…read moresuper nice to me, as the electric kept going on and off, as did the alarm. What little bit of the museum that I got to see was amazingly beautiful. I only got to stay at the museum for a little bit, because they were closing the museum at the time. The staff allowed me to stay inside with them long enough for the storm to finish blowing through. I hope to come back to visit again soon, because I would really like to get to go through the museum to see it in its entirety.