East Coast Route goes through the less populated area of east coast of Taiwan. The Taitung section in Hualien-Taitung Line run along small towns like Chihshang, Haituan, Kuanshan, Luyeh, Puyuma, and Taitung.

    There is the Bad Land of Lichi, which is famous for its geographic formation. Rices treasured by connoisseurs, like Chihshang Rice, Kuanshang Rice and Fulu Rice, are harvested here. Hardworking Minans, austere Hokkas, brightly-dressed Amis, brave Bununs, and retired-veterans Mainlanders all settle here and live peacefully together.

    Hualien-Taitung Line runs through the East Rift Valley National Park. It serves for both cargo and passenger transportation. There’re many tourists during weekends.

    There’re many famous and less known scenic spots, and many well-known produce grown along Taitung section of Hualien-Taitung Line, and they’re a lot to know about them.

    There is a computer center with 14 PCs shared by all pupils in our school. They were slow, as they were bought 6 years ago. The computer center uses Microsoft NT LAN, and links to TANet, a network for schools and institutes in Taiwan, before reaching Internet through an ADSL line.

    It was what we relied on when we searched info and uploaded reports. We could hardly do anything after school because none has PC and networking except two of our teammates.

 1.It's a long way to go to any train station, and there were 15 of  

    us. The transportation we needed relied on the parents and  

    teachers. We often re-scheduled because we couldn’t go along

    with the parents’ plans.
2.We spent tremendous time looking for many of the train

   stations, as they were abandoned for lon, had tumbled into

   ruins and being sabotaged. Some of them don’t look like train

   stations anymore. We had to ask local residents to know how

   they were like at their times.
3.We did our research mostly in weekends. But most of the pupils

   come from farming families and were required to help with farm

   chores or take care of the younger siblings. That’s why we

   seldom had full attendance in group research, and it went worse

   in Jan.-Feb. winter vacations.
   Our advisors tried to talked to the parents, but they could

   hardly force them to release their children.
4.The project took a long time. Some of the pupils had to give up

   because of their family; Ching Yang and Chia-hsuan Hu left our

   school because their family moved away. Hope they’d have a

   good time in their new schools, make many friends and contact

   us often.

  We     saw the transformation of Hualien-Taitung Line through the project. As the communities change, many train stations fall from their highs.

    Trains were the most mean of important transportation. Many old timers still remember that they used to shout out loud when the train had a hard time going uphills, and always bought meal boxes whenever the train went by the stations of Kuanshan and Chishang.