Section 5
A logging line that became a route
The Alishan Forest Railway from 1912.
- A line built to take timber downThe Alishan Forest Railway was built from 1912 for logging, with switchbacks and spiral sections to manage the gradient.
- A halfway town that stayedFenqihu grew as a service stop on the line and survived the end of logging as a waypoint rather than as a destination.
- What the line was built to removeThe old-growth cypress and cedar the railway existed to extract are the reason the remaining stands are now protected.
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