Brushed metal plaque № 48972

Sparks, NV, United States

Southern Pacific Railroad Yards. Soon after 1900, laborers reworked some 373 miles of the original Central Pacific (now the Southern Pacific) line between Reno and Ogden, Utah. The effort involved shortening the line in some places. One such change took Wadsworth (Nevada), a division terminal, off t

he main line. During the summer of 1904, the terminal was moved to this location, which became the town of Sparks.The railroad dismantled a huge forty-stall locomotive roundhouse in 1959. The machine

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