Cross the Ta-an River, and you enter Taichung County. Next to the rails at the Tai-an Station is a monument in the shape of a giant artillery shell. It tells another sad story: "To commemorate the reconstruction of the Taichung line after an earthquake."
過了大安溪就來到台中縣，在泰安站的鐵軌旁豎立著一座砲彈型的紀念碑，這是山線的另一個歷史刻痕：「台中線震災復興紀念碑」。