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Alishan Forest Railway and in Chiayi, Taiwan.


As a red and cream-colored train chugs up the Alishan mountains of Taiwan, hikers and villagers stop and wave at the passengers on board.


It feels like an adventure, harking back to a time when train travel was new and exciting.
And in a way, it is.


The train has embarked on one of the newly introduced cruise-style tours on the century-old Alishan Forest Railway, a network of 71.4 kilometers (44.4 miles) of narrow-gauge rail lines in central Taiwan's Alishan mountain range.