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NX200 - Jiji Branch Rail Line

Started May 25, 2015 | Photos
davidlee1995 New Member • Posts: 16
NX200 - Jiji Branch Rail Line
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Jiji green tunnel, a boulevard of camphor trees lining provincial highway 16 next to the train line, planted in 1940.

The logging industry exhibition hall is the main feature in Checheng, explaining the production process from felling, resin extraction in the log pond, transport using cranes to the processing plant, to completed lumber and byproducts. Detail of pincer grips used to hold the massive logs along a tracked cart to guide the trunks into the cutting blades.

Water storage tower for filling train cart tanks, used back when engine locomotives were steam powered

Crane display to lift and move logs from the collection pond (to extract resin and extend the life of the wood) onto either trucks for unfinished logs or onto the light rail track into the lumber processing building.

Stray cat asleep on a dry table under an awning.

The Jiji branch line terminus station, Checheng, emerged from a light rail pushcart route built the Taiwan Sugar Corporation between Puli and Checheng. Checheng became a transport hub for the cars, later booming from the Sun Moon Lake hydroelectric project and logging industry.

Detail of steam locomotive engine #22 in front of the Jiji branch rail line.

One of a few historic R.O.C. tanks on display in the Jiji military history park, most arms were of US origin, leftover from the World War II era.

Remains of the Wuchang Temple in shows the devastation of the 7.6 magnitude 921 earthquake centered in Jiji.

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Harleysoftail
Harleysoftail Contributing Member • Posts: 506
Re: NX200 - Jiji Branch Rail Line

Nice pics - thanks for sharing.

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Isola Verde
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Harleysoftail wrote:

Nice pics - thanks for sharing.

Indeed - and they also make up an interesting collection of travel stories!

Peter

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shuutrr Regular Member • Posts: 472
Re: NX200 - Jiji Branch Rail Line

That is a fairly serious electrical transmission tower in the background.  Just curious, is there a generating facility (dam perhaps) nearby?

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Jeff Style Contributing Member • Posts: 951
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Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Wish the car wasn't in the shot in #1. My eye kept going right over to it

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OP davidlee1995 New Member • Posts: 16
Re: NX200 - Jiji Branch Rail Line

shuutrr wrote:

That is a fairly serious electrical transmission tower in the background. Just curious, is there a generating facility (dam perhaps) nearby?

Correct, just behind the log pond near the train station is the MingTan dam, further upstream is the DaGuan dam, and the Sun Moon Lake dam as well.

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