Roseville, CA news and local guide

In 1906 the Southern Pacific moved its facilities from Rocklin to Roseville, and three years later, in 1909, the town incorporated as a city. Businesses put up more than 100 buildings in the expansion that followed, including the Pacific Fruit Express plant of 1913, then the largest ice manufacturing plant in the world. Roseville remained a railroad town for decades. By 1929 the railroad employed up to 1,225 people out of a population of 6,425, and during World War II the rail yards were busier than ever. The postwar building boom brought continued prosperity, but the 1950s changed the city. The railroad converted its steam locomotives to diesel, while the new interstate highways, airlines and trucking cut into rail passenger and freight traffic, and restructuring cost railroad jobs. Sources Wikipedia: Roseville, California