Limon, Hub City of the Plains

Limon earned its nickname, Hub City, through pure railroad geometry. The town emerged in eighteen eighty-eight as a construction camp for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. The line chose this spot on the eastern Colorado plains as its division point, where a single track split into two branches, one heading northwest to Denver and the other southwest to Colorado Springs, crossing an existing Union Pacific line in the process.

That intersection made Limon an important rail junction on the Colorado plains. Limon was incorporated in nineteen oh nine and the railroads shaped nearly everything about it.