Soon after 1900, laborers reworked some 373 miles of the original Central Pacific, now the Southern Pacific, line between Reno and Ogden, Utah, shortening 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. A huge forty-stall locomotive roundhouse was dismantled in 1959, but the machine and erecting shops are still standing. Had the railroad yards not been moved here, the City of Sparks would not exist.