Exploring a secret military underground train workshop | ABANDONED

🎁📚Check out my new coffeetable book with a lot of military installations, ships, industrial places and other amazing abandoned places: 🎁📚 Today I post the main mission of my second trip to China: A once secret military underground train workshop. In the late 1960s, a nationwide war preparation effort against the Soviet Union was launched. A proposal was made to construct a combat ready locomotive repair factory to safeguard against enemy bombings and ensure maximum safety. That’s why it got constructed inside the heart of a mountain. Construction was completed in 1972, and officially opened a year later with the capacity of 50 locomotives. annual overhaul capacity of 50 locomotives Initially the factory opened as a confidential unit with its activities under semi-military management. There was a dedicated military unit within the factory responsible for patrolling and protecting the facility. In the 1980s the f