Welcome to The Steel Train Station, your departure point for an entertaining experience. Whether your visit includes dining, dancing, enjoying the music or imbibing exquisite spirits, we hope the ambiance created from our enhancement of the authentic railcars will take you back to the time when rail travel was in its heyday as the most opulent and exciting form of conveyance. The ascendancy of rail travel made “The Station” – be it Grand Central, Union Victoria or Metropolitan or any one of the hundreds of others – the most exciting place to be and be seen.p

Just as the City of Roseville grew from humble beginnings – in the 1880’s the area that is now Roseville was initially identified as the Junction and later Junction City- it being the intersection of two local rail lines –so too has The Steel Train Station morphed into the dynamic presence it now maintains.

Built in the 1890’s to serve as cargo transporters, The Station’s railcars found a new life in the 1960’s as part of the Victoria Station restaurant chain. Purchased by local legend Jerry Lee upon the closure of that operation, the cars were moved from their Sacramento location to their present location, and began life anew as another restaurant- The Roseville Junction. Experiencing a re-birth- the Junction was slated to be a keystone of what was then Roseville’s Auto Row. Unfortunately shortly after its opening in the early 90’s, Orlando Ave experienced an exodus of the auto dealers who were then flocking to the newly developed Roseville Auto Mall on Eureka Road. By the mid-nineties the only buildings on Orlando Avenue were vacant former auto show rooms.” Shortly thereafter, with little street traffic and no commercial neighbors, “THE JUNCTION” too was shuttered.

The property, which now houses “THE STATION”, was purchased by Irving and Carol Ross in the late 90’s, a time when the building and itinerant railcars were referred to by many as “…the train wreck…” Resisting efforts by a number of developers who wanted to “scrape” the property of the iconic railcars, the Rosses saw the wisdom of retaining the building in its current configuration as reflective of the rail heritage of the City of Roseville. Utilizing their personal funds, the Rosses commenced an extensive renovation project designed to restore the property to how it might have looked in the glory days of rail travel. Shortly after the turn of this century, the City of Roseville too, with an appreciative nod to its own rail town pedigree, installed an authentic “Ironhorse” locomotive, old number 2252, at the northern gateway to the publicly funded and redeveloped “Downtown”. The southern gateway- thanks to the vision and private investment of the Rosses, continues to be marked by the now “rocking railcars” cars and the little red caboose comprising “The Steel Train Station”.

We hope the re-born “Station” will reflect the dynamics of the City it represents, and that you’ll find “The Station” a great place to meet, greet, eat, and tap your feet. Thanks for visiting.