Map submitted by Joseph Loop.
GOOGLE MAPS no longer available: With apologies, I am unable to continue showing Google Maps. Google has forced my hand by increasing their map usage fee from nothing/free to OVER $300 A MONTH for the Abandoned Rails website! This is an expense that I simply cannot afford. Rest assured I am looking at available open source alternatives, so maps should be back online soon!
—Greg HarrisonAbandonedRails.com
This abandoned railway ran through Grover, Colorado, and shows up on maps as early as 1895. It was abandoned in the 1970s.
Thanks to Jeff Koester for contributing information about this route.
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There is a small section of track just to the south of I-80 in Cheyenne
The roadbed is now a gravel road to the abandoned section
I think it goes about 1/2 a mile or so & you can see it on Google Earth clearly
Also this is the same track that went around the Cheyenne Depot to the current BNSF track
Ben Scottsbluff, NE 2/27/2013
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The Cheyenne Line of the CB&Q.
The book intitled "Sterling, Crossroads on the Prairie" has many photos of this line. There is an interesting photo taken from the tender of a train going through Willard. Showing 4 elevators along the south side of the tracks. Today the last 2 (most east) in the photo are all that are still standing. At one time in the later 1800's or early 1900's, Willard had more grain facilities than any other place in Eastern Colorado.
Bill Shepard Westminster, CO 10/20/2015
Also there is a preserved depot in Grover, Colorado
Need to visit it sometime
Ben Scottsbluff, NE 12/30/2015