Taiwan Railway officials were stationed in railway control centers the whole of the previous night in order to stop staff from leaving work early. As it turned out, emergency arrangements functioned so efficiently that all 165 scheduled trains ran on time during the Moon Festival.
而扮演火車是否正常運行關鍵角色的鐵路調車廠，台鐵亦安排主管徹夜駐守，力阻員工提前下班。在政府與鐵路局的強力調派下，中秋節一百六十五列次對號列車按時開出。