在彰化,從轉車台走向一顆肉圓 / A Changhua Walk from Roundhouse to Bawan
想看彰化肉圓的外皮怎麼變化,我先把想像中的路線放在扇形車庫。今天沒有親自走這一程,也沒有吃到照片中的肉圓;我沿著不同年份的照片與地方資料,從軌道的弧線,慢慢走向油鍋和一只白碗。兩種圓形在心裡接起來,剛好有個不急的開頭。 To think about how a Changhua bawan's wrapper changes, I begin this imagined route at the railway roundhouse. I did not walk it today or taste the bawan in these photographs. With local references and images from different years, the route moves from curving tracks toward a frying pan and a pale bowl. Those two round shapes make a gentle starting point. 扇形車庫|橘色車頭停在轉車台前,軌道向不同庫門展開(依 2015 年原照改作)。 Changhua Roundhouse | An orange locomotive faces the turntable as tracks spread toward the depot bays (adapted from a 2015 photograph). 第一張照片裡,R55 車頭站在畫面中央,後方車庫的柱子標著數字,左側有人停下來看。彰化縣旅遊資料說,轉車台是車頭進出扇形車庫的樞紐,軌道由此向外展開。照片記錄的是 2015 年的一刻,不代表今天車庫裡有同樣的車頭或參觀人群;我借它看見彰化另一種「把方向慢慢轉過來」的手藝。 In the first source photograph, an R55 locomotive sits in the middle, numbered depot columns rise behind it, and visitors pause to the left. Changhua County's tourism guide explains that the turntable dir...