But times changed, and one after another many industrial railways were taken out of service. The forestry railways were all closed down, and the Taiwan Sugar Corporation, as it diversified and was restructured, also went over to road haulage, selling off the land on which its railways had run.
曾幾何時，隨著時代轉變，許多產業鐵路功成身退，林業鐵路一個個收山，台糖也面臨轉型，改用公路運輸，釋出原有的鐵路用地。