Photo ID: 108030 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 11, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Byers Byers, CO 938 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound empty grain train crosses over West Bijou Creek just west of Byers on its way east toward Cheyenne Wells. Once there, the train will tie down in the siding and the power will return to Denver. The train came from Eagle Pass, TX, went up to Topeka, KS, then made its way over the Overland to Cheyenne, back south to Denver, and east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108031 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 11, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West of Byers Byers, CO 844 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific A single ES44AC is crossing over West Bijou Creek, which actually does have a little bit of water running in it right now. The grain empty is heading for Cheyenne Wells in eastern Colorado. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108032 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 11, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 842 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound unit grain empty, heading for Cheyenne Wells, has climbed up to Cedar Point from Buick and is now starting the decent down toward Limon. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108033 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 11, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 1115 (2 Comments Posted) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific An AC4400CW with a fairly fresh coat of paint, sporting some wings on the nose, rounds the bend near the west end of Cedar Point. This siding, which is under 5,000 feet long, really is not even a siding anymore after UP removed the east switch a few years ago. It is now a stub train just under 5,000 feet in length. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108034 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 11, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Cedar Point (4,947ft) Elbert County, CO 814 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific It is a beautiful spring day on the eastern Colorado plains. 24 hours after taking this picture, the scene would be radically different, covered in snow, as a spring blizzard moves in overnight. This train originated from Eagle Pass, TX and is heading to Cheyenne Wells, a city about 18 miles west of the Kansas border. 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 822 (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. Photo ID: 108036 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, April 11, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Byers (9,150ft) Byers, CO 878 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Limon (UP) Union Pacific That's a lot of autoracks! Union Pacific has made the decision to no longer use the KP as a through route. Due to the current downturn in the economy, a lot of cars are heading for storage. The siding at Byers has a string of autoracks stored in it. Agate has spine cars stored, and Buick has well cars stored. The cars on this train will be stored on the main at Jim, between Cheyenne Wells and Sharon Springs. The only trains the KP will see for the foreseeable future will be the Limon Local and an occasional grain shuttle to either Byers or Cheyenne Wells. 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 844 (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.