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Taiwan: Chiayi to Fenchihu

The Alishan Forest Railway (Chinese: 阿里山森林鐵路; pinyin: Ālǐshān Sēnlín Tiělù) is an 86 km network of 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railways running up to and throughout the popular mountain resort of Alishan in Chiayi County, Taiwan. The railway, originally constructed for logging, is itself a tourist attraction with unique Z-shaped switchbacks, 50 tunnels, and over 77 wooden bridges. Empire of Japan The narrow gauge lines were originally constructed by the Japanese Colonial Government in 1912 to facilitate the logging of cypress and Taiwania wood. Passenger carriages were first added to the trains in 1918. The first motive power was a Shay locomotive purchased second hand from the Kiso Forest Railway in Japan. Eventually the railway acquired 20 Shay locomotives. Eventually, diesel railcars supplemented the steam engines on the passenger services. In the 1980s, 10 Hitachi-built diesel-hydraulic locomotives were delivered and replaced the railcars and remaining steam engines. Taiwan The completion of the Alishan Highway in 1982 led to the loss of many rail passengers to faster and cheaper buses and the rail became primarily a tourist attraction. The railway line was severely damaged by rains associated with 2009's Typhoon Morakot, with services only running between Chiayi and Fenqihu after the typhoon occurred. In August 2015, the Chiayi-Fenchihu railway sections were damaged due to Typhoon Soudelor, but these were opened again on 12 August 2015. On 15 September 2015, the whole rail line underwent its first test run since the damages made by the typhoon in 2009, and the line was reopened to the public on 25 December 2015.