On Saturday, March 1st at 2 p.m., only four minutes after leaving the station, a fully loaded passenger train on the Shenmu branch of the Alishan Forest Railway experienced brake failure and plunged down the mountain.
三月一日星期六下午二時，一輛滿載乘客的阿里山神木線小火車，在駛離車站僅四分鐘後，就因煞車失靈，整列車猶如雲霄飛車般失速墜落。