Even now, an average of 130 cars of limestone a day is shipped from Hohsing station to concrete plants in Chutung. The streets in towns along the way are often covered with limestone dust.
現在合興站每天平均仍要運出一百卅車石灰石到竹東的水泥廠，所以在這條線上常可見被灰石塵染的街景。