• Once a self-sufficient community
  • Taiwan's economic export value accounts for the largest proportion
  • Departing from an abandoned railway
  • With the introduction of local people
  • Let's understand the history of Taiwan Sugar
Sugar mill locomotive

Retired train that used to transport sugar cane

Old banyan tree

Old banyan tree accompanied Pingtung sugar factory

Shinpei Torii

Japanese engineer built a water collection corridor

Taitang County People's Park

The transformed Park is full of amazing designs

Mini-train Park

History

Taiwan sugar industry railway, aka Sugar Railway, or known as the mini-train, is to meet the needs of Taiwan sugar industry and the construction of a special railway. At the beginning of the Japanese era, the governor's office was short of financial resources and Japan's domestic economy was depressed. It was unable to attract private enterprises to invest in the Taiwan railway. The Taiwan sugar railway was first laid in 1906 at the qiaotou sugar mill of Taiwan sugar co., LTD., but at that time it was only a trolley track drawn by water buffalo or pushed by human hands, so it was not connected to the railway during Japanese times. It was not until after the war, when they took over Japanese property, integrated all the sugar mills into the state-owned Taiwan sugar company, and built a parallel preparatory line from north to south, that the entire island's sugar mills were connected to one another.

Mini-train Park

Purpose of mini-trains

The mini-trains , which typically carry raw materials but can also carry passengers, were once one of Taiwan's main transportation drivers. Sugar railways in Taiwan are usually used to carry sugar cane and sugar packets. The sugar industry railway can be divided into "business line" and "raw material line" for its transportation purpose. The "business line" is open to the public for passenger and cargo transportation, and the service scope goes deep into towns and townships to make up for the places not reached by the Taiwan railway; And "raw material line" to transport mainly cane, not open to the outside world. The worst thing is that the fives are no longer on the road. Their main function is to allow people to take photos and promote tourism. They can no longer carry sugar canes or passengers.

Mini-train Park

Type of locomotives

The company's early railroads were steam trains, built in Japan or Belgium. At present, these old bones are kept in various factories of the company, such as the 1067 mm gauge taisang 11 steam locomotive. Imported gasoline engine of internal combustion train from the United States, started the modification or introduction of internal combustion diesel engine train of downwind brand, xizhou brand, jinma brand and Hitachi brand. The German brand internal-combustion train imported from Germany in 1966 is the main force of railway transportation, and has been used for 40 years.

Mini-train Park

Route in the old time

The early railway was radially distributed around the sugar mills. In order to facilitate transportation, it connected with the guanying railway at the station for transshipment. With the increasing number of new sugar mills in Taiwan, the coverage of sugar railways has also increased. Since the sugar mills are mainly concentrated in central and southern Taiwan, the sugar railways are also concentrated in Chang-hua plain and Jia-nan plain. The railway in Pingdong city goes northeast along the independence road, and continues to the northeast after crossing Min-sheng road and connecting Minhe road. After bypassing the backgate of Ming-he Elementary School, the railway headed north and passed through Lin-sen road, Gong-Yuan East road, Min-Gui street, Dong-xing lane, Wan-nian Creek and Sheng-li road before turning northwest to the national movement center. After crossing the Zhi-Yo road, the railway crossed Gong-zhi street and Ren-ai road in the parallel direction with the Zhi-Yo road to the North Market of Juy-uan lane, Zhu-ru lane and Zhong-zheng road 253 lane Then crossing Zhi-Yo road and turn north around Gong-yu street and then crossing Guangton road. Keeping going north through Gong-min street and finally through the Chong-lan old ditch. From the map of the period of Japanese rule, we know that the sugar industry railway was around the periphery of the city, and then with the urban expansion, slowly integrated with pingtung city.

Mini-train Park

Current Situation

At present, there are various types of subtracter in the subtracter park (type 352 steam locomotive imported from Belgium, type 113 diesel locomotive of German brand demar, type 933 diesel locomotive of American brand xizhou, type 802 diesel locomotive of Japanese brand Hitachi). In order to green the environment, the park also has a large lavender field, very beautiful. At the back of the park, there is also a 9-meter chimney base, which looks very magnificent. It is now available for photos. With the professional explanation of the tour guide, you can definitely know more about the mini-train park.

Tai-tang Cultural Museum

history

The main purpose of the company was to produce sugar and sell it. Granulated sugar production is reduced background sugar is facing a transformation. About the beginning of 2004, the company completed the construction of the following eight business divisions. In addition to the main sugar business, there are also volume trading, oil products, animal husbandry, biotechnology, commodity marketing, refined agriculture, leisure and recreation. In the past, taitian sugar also operated the railway transportation and education business. Pingtung factory has stopped working, it was one of the three main plant for the Taiwan sugar company, today to can keep some old photos, historical and cultural tools, such as: memorial tablet, early sugarcane crushing machine (stone roll), the second peak torii curriculum letter statue,

unexploded shells (bomb) fish, ploughs, unidirectional plate towed five disc plough, five tons of gooseneck trailer, traction machine back loaded trailer, cracked soil,

compost and manure spreader can also in order to let more people understand pingtung some relevant information about the sugar sugar mill, so the flagstaff house museum of sugar was established.

Tai-tang Cultural Museum

Establishment Time

Taiwan sugar industry co., LTD. (a.k.a. Tai-tang) is one of the largest enterprises in Taiwan's agricultural industry. It was founded in the republic of China on May 1, 1946. Pingtung sugar factory museum 1 was established in June 1999, covering an area of about 28 ping. In December 101, the second cultural relic hall of pingtung sugar factory was also completed, covering an area of about 100 square meter . In addition to the original exhibition area, there are other showrooms for "Pingtung pulp factory" and "development of the wasteland of Li-li river by the forest."

Tai-tang Cultural Museum

Cultural relics commentary

There are many cultural relics in the museum. The interior displays a variety of historical objects. The theme areas include "old photos", "calligraphy and painting, seal cutting, ink painting", "documents and historical materials", "cultural relics and tools", "Musical Instruments and costumes", "sugar cane, soil, insect specimens", "MEDALS, trophies" and "audio-visual viewing". There will also be enthusiastic volunteers to guide and talk to visitors.

Tai-tang Cultural Museum

preservation and activation

In order to conserve the history relics for the last 100 years , Taiwan Sugar Company cooperate with CCA will to promote the state-run enterprises industry culture assets inventory policy. In January 2005 , it established "cultural asset management operation of internal control system, to deal with the sugar cultural assets - historical materials, construction of civil, cultural relics of the historical sites of machinery, culture, natural landscape, intangible cultural assets, group overview and oral historical materials inventory into use, and provides the sugar is the flagstaff house museum of sugar at 9 cultural tour commentary, as a link for cultural events.

Information

Tai-tang Cultural Museum is a small museum of sugar development, with many exhibits, which is a good place to go for sightseeing. The visit information is as follows: Entrance Fee : Free Telephone : 08-7526301# 4 Address:No.66, Taitang 3rd St., Pingtung City, Pingtung County 90083, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Business Hour :Mon~Fri 08:00~17:00 ( Tour guide available )

Tai-tang Citizen Park

Introduction of the Citizen Park

Tai-tang Citizen Park was the former of Tai-tang waste pulp factory. After the reconstruction, it is also known as " A-Hou 1909 greenwater park". The park combines culture, ecology, leisure... And other functions, so that the county of Taiwan sugar min park to become the largest leisure park in pingtung. There are also tennis courts, badminton courts and even baseball courts. There are a lot of big trees planted on both sides of the road, each of which seems to be decades old. There are chairs under the banyan tree with a long history for people to enjoy the cool air and chat, which is a good place for leisure and entertainment.

Tai-tang Citizen Park

Co-Fusion Playground

The first large-scale swing playground in pingtung was officially opened on October 15, 2018 at the taitang county people's park. There are a variety of children's amusement facilities, as well as many lovely installations and open Spaces on the grassland. The newly completed children's playground is paved with artificial turf. There are triangular rope net climbing rack, semicircle rope net climbing rack, blotget climbing wall, extreme flywheel and slide climbing group, while there are up to 9 special style swings, making it an excellent playground for children.

Tai-tang Citizen Park

Lifestyle

Tai-tang Citizen Park, which opened at the end of 2018, is the largest playground in pingtung and has a large free parking lot next to it. There are many amusement devices in the park that are very suitable for family and children to travel together. During holidays, a large number of tourists can be attracted to the community, which can not only drive the economy of Taiwan sugar, but also relax people physically and mentally.

Information

Tai-tang Citizen Park is a leisure space with a lot of installation art and large grass garden, which is a good place for family and children to relax. The visit information is as follows Entrance Fee : Free Telephone Number : None Business Hour : Open 24 hours ( outdoor ) Address : No.2, Taitang St., Pingtung City, Pingtung County 90083, Taiwan (R.O.C.)