But the Miaoli and Taichung County governments are reluctant to let stretches of track in their counties disappear, and in 1994 Miaoli went so far as to hire a consultancy to assess the possibility of establishing a "tourist railway" and a railway museum in Shenghsing.
不過苗栗縣及台中縣政府都捨不得讓自己境內的這一段老鐵路從此消失，苗栗縣政府更曾在民國八十三年委託民間顧問公司評估，提出「觀光鐵路」及在勝興籌建「鐵路博物館」的構想。