‘OhBear Smile’ tourist train to serve southern Taiwan from Aug 29

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-08-29
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

This year’s first “OhBear Smile” tourist train pulled out of Shulin Station at 10:45 a.m. on Monday after a ceremony on the platform to mark the launch of the special train, which is dedicated to serving the railway stretch from Chiayi Station to Pingtung Station in southern Taiwan as a daily local train, according to a joint statement by the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) and Tourism Bureau.

The train covered with paintings of OhBear and two TRA mascots pulled into Shulin Station at 10:15 to a swarm of waiting journalists on the platform who was busy taking pictures of this year’s first OhBear train.

After a short launching ceremony, the train left for Taipei. Taiwan tourism ambassador OhBear was on the train to interact with passengers and reporters. Children were especially fond of OhBear and tagged along after him on the train.     [FULL  STORY]