An old man who lives behind the Chiayi warehouse remembers: "In the old days this was the starting point for train journeys to Mt. Ali. Motorized trucks and oxcarts would stand in line around the clock waiting to load and unload goods." Taiwan was once a land of the railroad, but after 1945 goods were increasingly transported by road rather than railway.
一如台灣所有鐵道的命運，光復後，隨著公路運輸的發達，鐵路的載貨功能日漸消失。