Hengdaohezi’s locomotive depot is a fan of fifteen adjoining bays. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism describes thick brick walls, an iron-sheet roof and a floor area of more than 2,000 square metres. Tracks radiate from a central turntable to each bay: rotating the table aligned an engine with the door it needed, so locomotives could enter or leave without a conventional loop of track. The fan is a piece of railway engineering made visible in the building’s plan.
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Hengdaohezi’s locomotive depot
Fifteen brick bays and a central turntable made Hengdaohezi’s fan-shaped engine house a working railway machine.
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A fan-shaped engine house
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The depot served locomotive storage and repair until 1990. The Chinese Eastern Railway began construction in 1897, and the provincial tourism account dates Hengdaohezi Station to 1901; the station was still operating when that account appeared in 2025. These dates distinguish the working roles of the two buildings: trains stopped at the station, while the engine house sheltered and maintained the locomotives that ran the line.