Tracks and other traces of Taiwan's sugar railways (China Post)

In this era of high-speed trains, it seems odd to recall that a rail network originally built to haul sugarcane used to be one of Taiwan's major transportation systems.

To write this article, I visited three former Taiwan Sugar Corp. railway stations. Here's a photo the China Post didn't use. It's of the front of the old Yijhu station, which I describe as "dilapidated yet picturesque."

I've been interested in industrial archaeology ever since a high-school geography teacher introduced me to the term. See also this article from late 2006: Old factories are the new tourist hotspots.