Nevada State Historical Marker 189

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737 Victorian Avenue, Sparks, NV 89431

Sparks

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Soon after 1900, laborers reworked some 373 miles of the original Central Pacific (now the Southern Pacific) line between Reno and Ogden, Utah

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The effort involved shortening of the line in some places. One such change took Wadsworth (Nevada), a division terminal, off the 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 and erecting shops are still standing.

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