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Taipei's layers often surface through water and underground works: Beitou releases steam, an MRT station displays old machinery works, the route to a wharf crosses a flood gate, and railway workers once washed away oil inside the shops.
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01 · Xinbeitou · Thermal Valley
The white mist is not an effect. Beitou's underground heat is surfacing here.
Thermal Valley puts Beitou's underground heat directly on the surface. High-temperature spring water colors the basin; steam thickens and thins with weather before joining the Beitou Stream system.
Source: btdo.gov.taipei
02 · Beimen
Look down while waiting: the stone walls beneath the glass predate the MRT by several layers of city.
Construction beneath Beimen Station did not encounter blank ground. Remains associated with the Qing-era Machinery Bureau emerged through several soil layers, including stone walls, roads, and drains.
Source: travel.taipei
03 · Dadaocheng Wharf
The walk from Dihua Street to the river passes through a thick door that can close at any time.
Dadaocheng's busiest riverfront entrance is also a flood gate that can be shut. On ordinary days, people pass through the thick wall from Dihua Street to stroll by the wharf.
Source: heo.gov.taipei
04 · Taipei Railway Workshop
Beside the enormous railroad works, a bathhouse washed oil and heat from workers.
Taipei Railway Workshop repaired trains and also had to care for the people who repaired them. Steam from the plant's power facilities heated water in a staff bathhouse so shift workers could wash off oil and fatigue before leaving.
Source: nrm.gov.twAll images on this page are City Whisper editorial illustrations, not historical photographs, news photographs, or evidence.
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