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	Search results: 6 item(s) for: "493 Vehicles"        Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. [wa0027] [Suao-Hualian Highway] 480 Travel and Transportation; 130 Geography; 494 Highway transportation; 493 Vehicles; 133 Topography and Geology Highway cut into the side of sheer cliff face of Taiwan's east coast. First built in Qing period as part of ""open the mountains, tame the savages"" campaign in the 1870s, the Suao-Hualian Highway fell into disuse and disrepair by the 1890s. The entire length of the highway was restored in under orders from Governor General Sakuma in 1916, following Japan's defeat of the Taroko Gorge tribes. This work was completed in 1925; a second widening period was competed in 1931 (Matsumoto 1996, p. 153; Nihon chiri taikei 1930 p. 184-85). 2. [wa0104] [Tunnel on the Suao-Hualian Highway] 130 Geography; 494 Highway Transportation; 493 Vehicles; 133 Topography and Geology; 490 Land Transport On the front of postcard of same location (different angle), from Academia Sinica Image Collection (TW02009100),""石硿子の大理石隧道 Tunnel of Marble at Sekikushi (Marine Road at the East Formosa). From back of same card,""岩に窓を穿ち人間業とは思へぬ風致があります 自動車は東海運輸株式會社のバスです."" 3. [wa0105] [Another view of Suao-Hualian Highway] 130 Geography; 494 Highway Transportation; 493 Vehicles; 133 Topography and Geology; 490 Land Transport Close-up of concrete guardrails along the eastern coastal highway. 4. [wa0108] [Qingshui (Shimizu) Cliffs] 130 Geography; 494 Highway Transportation; 493 Vehicles; 133 Topography and Geology; 490 Land Transport The Qingshui or Shimizu Cliff 清水の断崖. ""This two-kilometer-long cliff [is located] between Zongde 宗德 and Heping 和平 along the Suao-Hualian Highway...Its rock formation is gneiss and marble, constituting a vertical cliff....This section of Qingshui is drilled in the middle of the cliff. The engineering was extraordinarily tough"" (Liu 1997, p. 234-5). 5. [wa0145] [Cable bridge over the Big Muddy Creek] 480 Travel and Transportation; 130 Geography; 491 Highways and Bridges; 493 Vehicles; 133 Topography and Geology When this bridge was built in March, 1921, it was located at the boundary between Taipei and Hualian Prefectures. Crossing Dazhuoshui 大濁水(now called Heping 和平 river) about 39 miles from Suao, was 514.5 meters long and 3.6 meters wide. Its surfaces were made from a combination of red cypress and other woods. The central bridge tower was taken to be the boundary between Taipei and Hualian....This is the longest bridge along the coastal highway, and was an engineering feat of great difficulty. In 1946, the bridge collapsed during a typhoon, to be replaced in 1949 by a concrete bridge, which in 1961 was in turn replaced by a steel reinforced cement bridge (Liu 1997, p. 217). Translated Japanese caption: ""The 大濁水(Dazhuoshui) Cable Bridge. With a length of 1700 feet and a width of 20ft., with 2600 cables attached to the ferroconcrete co 6. [wa0299] [Sakuma Samata memorial and push-car trolley] 490 Land Transport; 497 Rail Transport; 493 Vehicles Trolleys were the basic vehicle of transportation in remote areas in Taiwan during the Qing Dynasty. Trolley tracks in Taiwan were single-laned, so when two trolleys came upon each other, the pushers would adroitly exchange trolleys. It was quite a performance. In addition, the facilities on each trolley varied. Some simpler ones had only a wooden box or rattan chair; others were more elaborate and virtually turned into a boxcart, offering shelter from sunshine and rain (Matsumoto 1990, p. 328).
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