Looking at this photo, and learning it's a railroad school for teenagers to learn about and prepare for a possible career in railroading, now it makes sense to me.. that's why this train looks similar to being a life size TOY train. Those colors and that locomotive alone make the whole train look like a plastic toy. Are you sure this isn't a G-Scale garden layout taken with a super zoom lens? I know, the people in the open windows are real, but wow that engine looks like a toy!
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| Posted by Ivan on May 5, 2014 | |
Sorry for my bad English, but I'll try to explain you, how does it work.
It's real narrow gauge train, 760 millimetres. It's a real serial soviet narrow-gauge locomotive, wich ex-ussr countries have a lot on their narrow-gauge railroads. The passenger cars was made in Poland in 1960-x.
Some of such locos and cars was taken by soviet government to many children's railroad in USSR. The purpose of creating such railroads was to teach teenagers railway professions and to give them a way to life. After finishing the railway school they have a lot of facilities to study in railway universities.
And nowadays we have such railroads working and teaching kids, also carrying passengers.
Usually such railroads have not more than 10 kilometres long. This railroad has 3 kilometres.
In race there is one adult person in the train and one adult loco driver with his helper-teenager. Also there are mechanical workers in depot and some adults in railway stations. All other professions occupied by teenagers. The maximum speed is 25 kilometres in hour. In the cars some passengers rides for pleasure, some hurries somewhere.
Such railways operates only by day and only in summer, some days in autumn and spring. But some classes for children also continues in winter.
Except photo this railway has another loco and another train. I'll try to post it in this gallery later.
Thank you and sorry for possible mistakes.
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Thank you Ivan for the explanation of the narrow gauge railroad. Best of luck to all of the student engineers.
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| Posted by Ivan on June 29, 2021 | |
Thanks for interest for seven years since I've posted this shot! This Railroad has its unofficial site https://children-railway.kharkov.ua/, powered by one of the course-leavers of this railroad, the history book, written by him after site, and some kind of railfan-community, who posts a lot of shots on that and other railsites and tends about this railroad. This railroad is not widely presented on railpictures, but it has lots and lots of photo and historical information on thar site and, as for shots, some other local railsources. Nowadays site is russian language only.
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