Photo ID: 113262 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Deer Trail to Agate Elbert County, CO 113 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific A snoot-nosed SD40N #1603 rolls east with fellow SD40N #1997 as the sun sinks in the western sky. UP 1603 has spent its entire life on UP's roster, delivered as SD40-2 #3349 in March 1977. The second unit start as a Chicago Northwestern unit, delivered as CNW 6862 in April 1974. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113261 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Deer Trail to Agate Elbert County, CO 92 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific In August and September, I was able to chase the Limon Local east out of Denver. Each of those times, the train was long enough that the crew brought a wide cab GE unit out of North Yard for the trip east. However, with only 37 cars, a pair of SD40-2s (now designated as SD40Ns after being rebuilt) were all that was needed for the train on this Sunday as it passes by hay bales just west of Agate. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113260 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 94 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific This eastbound oil train is climbing the grade at Cedar Point, roughly 12 miles west of Limon. Cedar point is now a stub siding, it's east switch having been removed many years ago. The result is a near-5,000 foot stub track here on the Colorado plains. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113259 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Buick to Cedar Point Elbert County, CO 103 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific UP 7264 and train cross over County Road 134 in rural Elbert County, about 75 miles east of Denver. The train is going to meet a rare daylight manifest at Limon. Alas, I was unable to get a shot of the meet as I had to head home. UP recently started running a once-weekly manifest between Sharon Springs, KS and Denver, CO, after nearly a decade of no regular manifests running on the line. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113258 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Buick to Cedar Point Elbert County, CO 94 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific This oil train came off the Moffat this morning, and actually went into emergency at Rocky, temporarily blocking the west switch and delaying the westbound Rocky Mountaineer. About seven hours later, the DPUs have been removed and the train is now making its way across the eastern plains of Colorado between Agate and Limon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113257 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Deer Trail to Agate Elbert County, CO 75 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific Bundles of hay lay waiting to be picked up in a field as a unit oil train rolls east near Agate Creek, just west of the small plains town of Agate. The few oil trains that UP runs on the Moffat these days frequently run north up the Greeley to the Overland after arriving in Denver. Was a pleasant surprise to find this one headed east on the KP. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113256 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, October 19, 2025 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Deer Trail to Agate Elbert County, CO 92 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific UP's Limon Subdivision sees very little traffic these days. Indeed, the line can go more than 24 hours without seeing any trains at all. Indeed, in the post-coal boom, pre-oil boom time period, the line was so slow, that UP stored cars on several sidings as well as the main, blocking the line as a through route! That lasted for around six months between April 2020 and October 2020. Here, an eastbound oil train is between Deer Trail and Agate, paralleling I-70. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108793 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 5, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 699 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific A smattering of railfans journeyed a bit off the main thoroughfares to Cedar Point for UP's steam train. There is a bit of a grade here, and the tracks depart the path they generally follow along I-70. Yours truly is amongst the group of photographers in the foreground. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108792 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 5, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 1143 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific Have you ever noted the numbers on the side of the cab of UP 4014 (beneath the unit number), or on most US steam engines for that matter? If you have wondered what they mean, here you go! 4-8-8-4: The wheel arrangement of the engine 1: This unit was part of the first or of this model of steam engine 68: The diameter of the drive wheels (in inches) 24-24: Diameter of the drive cylinders in inches (first number is front cylinders, second is back) 32: Length of the stroke (in inches) of the drive cylinders 540: Weight of the unit in pounds Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108791 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 5, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 1026 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific On July 23, 2013, it was revealed that UP had reached an agreement with the SoCal Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society in Pomona, CA to reacquire Big Boy 4014, rebuild it, and bring it back in to service. It is great being able to stand trackside and actually see the largest steam engine in American history running on the rails. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108790 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 5, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 996 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific This particular scene just has a timeless feel for it. If it wasn't for the SD70M...and perhaps the radio tower in the distance...it would be somewhat difficult to tell if this picture was taken in 1955 or 2021. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108789 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 5, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 1128 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific UP 4014 climbs the slight grade at Cedar Point, just west of Limon. Cedar Point is a great place to check out trains on the Limon Sub. Light is usually decent for westbounds or eastbounds, and the grade means trains are working a bit more as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108788 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, September 5, 2021 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 1013 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific Just east of Cedar Point, UP 4014 and UP 4015 lead UP's annual steam train excursion on the seldom-used Limon Sub, parallel to I-70. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108037 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 11, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Agate Elbert County, CO 975 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound empty autorack train crosses over Agate Creek on the eastern Colorado plains. The train is the last non-grain, non-Limon Local train that will be on the KP line for the foreseeable future. The autoracks are going in to storage on the main at Jim, along with two other strings of autoracks that will be stored on both the main and siding at Jim, blocking the KP as a through route. Traffic heading east out of Denver will now have to go north to Cheyenne and east on the Overland. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108035 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 11, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 955 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific From high above, an eastbound empty grain train descends down the hill from Cedar Point. If you look very closely in the top-right portion of the picture, you will see hat Cedar Point has in fact had its east switch removed and it is now a (roughly) 5,000-foot-long stub track, occasionally used for storage. An 18-wheeler is also making its way east on I-70 off in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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