It was subsequently restored and currently serves as a museum and offices, as well as the operating base for a heritage railway.

The station was designed by Baltimore architect C. M. Anderson, and sited on a filled-in basin at the terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

[3] The WM began daily through-train passenger service between Baltimore and Chicago, by way of Cumberland, on June 15, 1913.

[4]: 239–266 The WM used the upper floors of the station for its Western Division offices, and a control tower, even after the railroad's absorption into the Chessie System, until the dispatchers were reassigned in 1976.

[4]: 318 With the advent of the initiative in Cumberland to create a scenic railroad using the former WM trackage north out of the city, the station was partially restored in 1990.