Some corrections were offered below by John Sweetser.
Bob Chaparro
Moderator
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I'm amazed by how ignorant Roseville and Southern Pacific historians are about the construction of the Roseville yard. There was no "transfer of the freight crews from Rocklin to Roseville."? The freight crew terminal was Sacramento, not Rocklin.? Roseville was built to replace the SP's Sacramento yard.
The purported "foremost authority" on the history of Roseville was right when he wrote:? "The formal announcement that Roseville had been selected for the site of the Southern Pacific yards brought a startling transformation for the little village," but not for the reason he suspects.
The original "little village" of Roseville was totally wiped out to make room for the SP's Roseville yard.
Definitely a "startling transformation" but one that the area's historians have been completely unaware of.
Bob Chaparro