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	Search results: 2 item(s) for: "497 Rail Transport"        Image: Title: Subject: Description: 1. [wa0026] [Mt. Ali Locomotive] 480 Travel and Transportation; 496 Railways; 497 Rail transport Side view of a steam locomotive engine with trees in background. This engine pulled the train on the Mt. Ali railway, a winding and precipitous track that took decades to complete under Japanese colonial rule. 2. [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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