[HN Gopher] Children's Railways of the Former USSR
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       Children's Railways of the Former USSR
        
       Author : paganel
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2022-07-23 14:03 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.dzd-ussr.ru)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.dzd-ussr.ru)
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | When the state decides you will lay down rails, shovel coal, or
       | operate locomotives, may as well get started early.
        
       | deepdriver wrote:
       | The steam locomotives (scroll down for color photos) look
       | remarkably like Thomas the Tank Engine:
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       | http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/towns/gorky/foto1-eng.html
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       | Those photos are from the late 1990s, so maybe the resemblance is
       | intentional.
        
       | aaaaaaaaaaab wrote:
       | We have that in Budapest too:
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Children's_Railway
        
       | blueflow wrote:
       | Some of these still exist!
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Park_Railway
        
         | konschubert wrote:
         | And https://www.parkeisenbahn.de/startseite.html
        
       | djmips wrote:
       | Does this count? https://visitorinvictoria.ca/train-rides-
       | heritage-acres/#:~:....
        
       | euroclear wrote:
       | The Budapest espisode of the show Travel Man featured a visit to
       | the children's railway there.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EU-dyv1iOM
        
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