Datong Steam Locomotive Exhibition Hall is located in Datong Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd CNR. 

On September 15, 1988, the First Datong International Steam Locomotive Festival of China was held. During the festival, 'Roving Exhibition of Historic Steam Locomotives of China' was put on. Datong Steam Locomotive Exhibition Hall was developed based on the roving exhibition after the last main line steam locomotive made in China left the factory. It was named the 'Railway Education Base of China' and 'Moral Education Base of Shanxi Province'. 

On October 23,2002, six locomotives and rolling stocks left in Datong Steam Locomotive Exhibition Hall by the Science and Technology Museum of the Ministry of Railways including the '0' steam locomotive which is the earliest steam locomotive still existing in China and the coach taken once by Empress 'Cixi', were exhibited in the Locomotive and Rolling Stock Exhibiting Hall of the Railway Museum, then, Datong Steam Locomotive Exhibition Hall preserved exhibitions as below: 

Jie Fang type steam locomotive produced by Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works on August 1,1952, which was the first steam locomotive of new China. After the birth of that locomotive named 'August 1', the history that China could not build locomotives ended, and the 'brand-new page' of the history of locomotive and rolling stock industry of China opened.

Yue Jin type steam locomotive designed and trial-produced by Jinan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works in 1958. This type of steam locomotive with 1-3-1 axel arrangement is suitable for shunting. Altogether 202 locomotives of this type were produced by Jinan, Tangshan, Mudanjiang, Wuchang, and other works. In 1961, it was ceased to be produced. 

'KD7' type steam locomotive designed and manufactured in America in 1944. This type of steam locomotive was to have been used to support other countries for the Anti-fascist War as military materiel. But, when the locomotives were completed, the Second World War was about to end, so that, in 1947, the Relief Office of United Nations provided them to China, which were named 'Damei' (great America) Qian Jin type steam locomotive. This type of steam locomotive was the main line freight locomotive first made by Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works in September 1956. Altogether 4174 locomotives of this type were produced in China. The output ranked first in the main line freight locomotives of China. Then, it was named He Ping type, during the Datong Locomotive Works in 1987. It was a sample locomotive of reforming on Qian Jin type steam locomotive. The core of this reform is to change the traditional layer-by-layer combustion system in locomotive boiler into a gas-producer combustion system, to raise locomotive power and boiler efficiency. Although being run for a unwheeling cycle, it could not be put into production for the significant change on the traction power policy of the nation.

In the exhibition hall, more than 30 photos of early locomotives, a flag and a water injector once used on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Line, and other relics are also preserved. The models of '0' locomotive, imperial coach, 'dragon' locomotive, Qian Jin type steam locomotive, Jian She type steam locomotive, Dong Feng 4 type diesel locomotive, Shao Shan 3 type electric locomotive are also exhibited in nonperiodic time.