Lost Creek station is a historic

railroad depot A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a Rail transport, railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passenger train, passengers, freight rail transport, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one r ...

located at Lost Creek, Harrison County, West Virginia. It was built in 1892 by the

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

, and is a one-story, Folk Victorian frame building with

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siding. It measures . In 1923, it was the largest cattle shipping point east of the Mississippi River. It was listed on the

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in 2005 as the Lost Creek Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot.

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Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Buildings and structures in Harrison County, West Virginia Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, West Virginia Railway stations in the United States opened in 1892 Victorian architecture in West Virginia Folk Victorian architecture in the United States Former railway stations in West Virginia {{WestVirginia-railstation-stub