In retrospect, TSC's decline from its heyday was rapid. In 1983 TSC conducted a profit and loss review and decided to close down operations at Wushulin. The web-like sugarcane railroad network gradually sank into oblivion.
在後人看來，由極盛到衰弱竟是如此快速，民國七十二年，台糖公司經過損益評估，決定停止烏樹林糖廠的榨糖事業，密如蛛網的糖業鐵路也慢慢湮沒在土地裡。