Currently many of the engines of the Alishan Forest Railway are at least 20-30 years old, and train stations are suffering cutbacks in service and maintenance personnel. The number of travelers on the small station platforms often swells to over a thousand, and there is only one service person to maintain order. Anything can happen.
目前阿里山森鐵小火車不僅多數機車頭已運轉二、三十年而老舊不堪，連站務及維護人員亦遭縮編，小小站台往往湧入上千名遊客，卻只有一名站務人員在維護秩序，混亂情況可想而知。