[HN Gopher] Children's Railways of the Former USSR ___________________________________________________________________ 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: | | http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/towns/gorky/foto1-eng.html | | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-24 23:00 UTC)