For rail fans, the restoration of Alishan's No.26 was even more exciting than that of CK101. And Wu Yi-han even went so far as to state that Alishan's steam engines are "a national treasure on a par with China's pan das."
比起 CK101，阿里山二十六號森林火車的復駛更讓鐵路迷興奮，鐵道文化協會會長吳易翰將阿里山蒸汽火車比喻成「等同於中國貓熊的台灣國寶」。