Chinese New Year 2017, spent in Taitung with the family.
The night before we had visited an old friend of the mother, and had gone for an evening walk along the old disused railway, past the old school they had attended half a century ago, to the platform of Malan Station.
The next day we went for a walk in a local park created from the old Taitung station. It feels historic, and one day it will be, but this section of the line was closed only relatively recently, in 2001. The platform is still there, with the conserved tracks and a few carriages of rolling stock stationary on them.
The rear door of the end carriage was open. I had seen small children playing inside, running excitedly among the aisles of the train. I went inside to take the photo. Broken glass sprinkled everywhere.
That’s my leica on the seat.
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