The rail line from Orange to Charlottesville passing through Montpelier was completed in 1880. The line was double tracked in 1916 and Montpelier Station became a busy flag stop on the Southern Railway. Two hundred yards to the north of the depot stood a freight house and livestock pen. The freight house is still standing.
The overgrown remains of the old siding can still be found behind the freight house, and at the end of the siding a coal trestle, used for loading and unloading rail cars, can still be seen among the weeds.
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