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Montgomery, WV (MNG) unveiled a new platform on October 30, 2020. Partial quote from linked article is below.
The newly-upgraded Amtrak station is now up and running in Montgomery, and to commemorate the nearly $2 million-dollar investment, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Senator Joe Manchin and Congresswoman Carol Miller came to Montgomery on Friday and arrived in the most appropriate way: by train.

“Things are happening here in Montgomery. We’ve got the West Virginia Challenge Academy. We’ve got the new ramp and accessibility for Amtrak, and I’m really excited. This will mean a lot to the Challenge Academy to those students coming in and their families coming in to visit,” Sen. Capito said.

In total, it was a $1.8 million-dollar investment from Amtrak to upgrade the station platform and make it ADA-compliant adding in a new ramp and lift. Amtrak also put in new crosswalks and resurfaced and raised the platform to make it safer.
Montgomery’s station is the first of many in the state to get a renovation which is why the senators as well as Congresswoman Miller rode the Cardinal Trail in to kick off investments for Amtrak renovations across the state.
“Amtrak has re-committed itself to West Virginia. $27,000,000 dollars of investments will go to all of our stations,” Senator Manchin said.
I couldn't find an article about the other investments in WV, but this is a win! Still for the 3x/week Cardinal and a low-level platform, probably required by the freight company, but stations really do make a difference.
 
That's fantastic! Now if the Cardinal and the rest of the LD trains could just get to daily...can't imagine what the politicians thought about that...had to schedule a car pickup for the way back most likely. Absolutely unusable as a transportation service.
 
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