Limon Railroad Depot (Limon Heritage Museum)
Lincoln County
The town’s location at the intersection of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, and its designation as a division point on the latter, made Limon an important regional rail center and a major source of local employment. The 1910 wood frame depot is one of only three Rock Island depots in Colorado remaining in their place of operation.
Limon Railroad Depot (Limon Heritage Museum) (1998 photograph.)
Modernized by the Rock Island in the late 1930s, the depot is important for its design adaptations that allowed it to effectively serve and manage traffic at a major rail junction into the 1950s. In 1990, the Mid-States Port Authority donated the building to the Limon Heritage Society, and it now serves as a museum.