The darker-hued fields contain ripening maize, or purplish sugar-cane, and indeed the railway used to have a number of sugar refineries along its route, serviced by special little cane trains.
顏色蒼綠些的，要不是頂部會抽穗的玉蜀黍，就是紫莖的甘蔗田。早年花東沿線有幾個糖廠，滿載甘蔗的五分仔小火車曾經嘟嘟地駛過綠野平疇。