ROYAL GORGE CONDUCTOR KILLED

A Royal Gorge Railroad worker is killed when she is run over by the train during its return to the station.

A conductor for the Royal Gorge Railroad was killed when she was run over by the train Saturday night, the Fremont County Sheriff ’s Office said Sunday.

Leslie Cacy, 28, fell from a moving train car about 5 p.m. Saturday and died at the scene near Cañon City, sheriff’s spokeswoman Sgt. Megan Richards said in a news release.

Richards said the train was on its return trip and “about 4 miles from the station, Cacy was at the rear of the train, as it was backing up to the station, standing in the door opening when she fell off the rear of the train and was run over.”

There were about 200 people on the train, the news release said. The line remains closed, and the train is being transported from the bottom of the Royal Gorge canyon for examination. The National Transportation Safety Board has been notified.

Cacy, a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, met her husband, Devon Cacy, aboard the Royal Gorge Railroad about eight years ago, according to the Corpus Christi Caller Times.

The couple worked together at the railroad, where Devon was the operations manager. They were married in October 2015.

“They are a young couple being happily married for only seven months,” a GoFundMe page created by Leslie Cacy’s brother, Daniel Padilla, said. “Leslie is one of those people who always lit up a room with her unwavering smile and never shied away from lending a helping hand to anyone. The kind of person who loved incredibly deeply and saw the very best in everyone.”

On its Facebook page, Royal Gorge Route Railroad officials posted Sunday their sorrow and said the line would be closed “for the next few days.”

The post said: “We are absolutely devastated by the loss of our team member who died yesterday in an accident on the train. We have been working around the clock with authorities to figure out exactly what happened.”

An autopsy is planned, and foul play is not suspected, said Fremont County authorities.