"CALDWELL Station, on the Ches. and Ohio Railroad has now become fully established as a regular station shipping and receiving freights daily. A line of stages also connects with all passenger trains on the road passing this point...." At that time it was thought that Caldwell would become the logical railroad station for the county seat at Lewisburg, and in the following decade a considerable rivalry grew up between it and Ronceverte, but because the latter place had additional attractions to make it a principal stop on the road, it took most of the Lewisburg business and the "stage line" so bravely spoke of in 1873 was running in the opposite direction by 1879. The large station at Caldwell was ultimately burned as a result of a spark from a passing engine in 1901. Its replacement was a shelter-type building with open air accommodations for those awaiting the one local passenger train which stopped. Its agent was removed and it became only an insignificant flag stop by passed by the great name trains which called at White Sulphur and Ronceverte.

Traveling westward on the road the next station of importance is Whitcomb, named for the C&O's early chief engineer. It is the first encounter of the road with the Greenbrier River at which point it is crossed. This is also the junction point of the Greenbrier branch after 1900. Next beyond Whitcomb is the major point of Ronceverte. The town took on early importance in that it soon won out from Caldwell as the railroad station for Greenbrier's most important town-Lewisburg. "

Caldwell's Station