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2012 阿里山櫻花季(Alishan Sakura Season) 柴油火車 in 櫻花鐵道~
The Alishan Mountain Railway was opened in 1911 .
Used in its earlier days for transporting timber,
when the policy of conservation of forest resources was introduced it became a tourist railway. The locomotive pulls the cypress carriages through the misty forest, passing fallen cherry blossom, also greeting the dawn each day, the turning gears and loud whistle arousing special railway memories.
Alishan Mountain Railway is 71.4 kilometers long, climbing from the 30 meters elevation of Chiayi’s Beimen Station to 2216 m Alishan Station, stopping at 17 stations along the way and taking around three hours and 20 minutes to complete the journey. The terrain the railway passes through can be divided into two kinds, plain and mountains.
The plain section is the 14.4 km from Beimen to Zhuqi, after which the railway begins to climb slowly through the mountains. The slope is steep and the turn round radius small, and many bridges are crossed and tunnels passed through, all making up the special experience that is taking a train on the Alishan Mountain Railway.
The switchbacks and the high mountain scenery make Alishan Mountain Railway a world class tourist attraction. It has also been given an injection of life in recent years by the surge of interest in eco-tourism and train travel.
During the Sakura Seaon on Alishan, as a photographer you have to take a shot of the Alishan steam train with the sakura flowers overhead. This shot has been done to death by thousands of photograhers already, but it's considered a compulsory shot while you are at Alishan. To take this photo, you need to be at Tsao-Ping Station (沼平車站). You then walk in the direction back towards the park's entrance, following the train tracks. Just a short distance away from the Tsao-Ping Station, you'll see a railway crossing at a gentle S-bend in the tracks. Across the tracks is a police station with a large transmitting tower in front of it. There will also be a ton of photographers camped out there, so there's no mistaking the spot. If you manage to squeeze through them, and get yourself a spot, you just have to wait there for the train to approach, and take the shot at the right moment.
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2012 阿里山櫻花季(Alishan Sakura Season) 柴油火車 in 櫻花鐵道~
The Alishan Mountain Railway was opened in 1911 .
Used in its earlier days for transporting timber,
when the policy of conservation of forest resources was introduced it became a tourist railway. The locomotive pulls the cypress carriages through the misty forest, passing fallen cherry blossom, also greeting the dawn each day, the turning gears and loud whistle arousing special railway memories.
Alishan Mountain Railway is 71.4 kilometers long, climbing from the 30 meters elevation of Chiayi’s Beimen Station to 2216 m Alishan Station, stopping at 17 stations along the way and taking around three hours and 20 minutes to complete the journey. The terrain the railway passes through can be divided into two kinds, plain and mountains.
The plain section is the 14.4 km from Beimen to Zhuqi, after which the railway begins to climb slowly through the mountains. The slope is steep and the turn round radius small, and many bridges are crossed and tunnels passed through, all making up the special experience that is taking a train on the Alishan Mountain Railway.
The switchbacks and the high mountain scenery make Alishan Mountain Railway a world class tourist attraction. It has also been given an injection of life in recent years by the surge of interest in eco-tourism and train travel.
During the Sakura Seaon on Alishan, as a photographer you have to take a shot of the Alishan steam train with the sakura flowers overhead. This shot has been done to death by thousands of photograhers already, but it's considered a compulsory shot while you are at Alishan. To take this photo, you need to be at Tsao-Ping Station (沼平車站). You then walk in the direction back towards the park's entrance, following the train tracks. Just a short distance away from the Tsao-Ping Station, you'll see a railway crossing at a gentle S-bend in the tracks. Across the tracks is a police station with a large transmitting tower in front of it. There will also be a ton of photographers camped out there, so there's no mistaking the spot. If you manage to squeeze through them, and get yourself a spot, you just have to wait there for the train to approach, and take the shot at the right moment.