A museum with a collection of 15 old steam locomotives from different countries opened to the public Friday in the capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.
The largest museum of its kind in China, the Shenyang Steam Locomotive Museum has locomotives from the United States, Japan, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, the former Soviet Union, and China, said officials of the museum, adding that most of the locomotives were manufactured in the 1920s.
Costing nearly 10 million yuan (US$1.2 million) to build, the museum has several exhibition halls, including those for steam locomotives, locomotive models and popular science.
The officials said the museum used to be an internal exhibition hall of steam locomotives of the local railway administration, and the new building has added 11,311 square meters.
(Xinhua News Agency August 9, 2003)
