These trains are run by students. Toward the end of the second video they say that in some European countries they eliminated these trains and programs in anti USSR moves as they are considered relics of the evil empire. The first one was actually in Gorky Park Moscow? BUT Stalin wanted to give pride of place to his native Georgia so he erased most mentions of the Moscow RR and credits Georgia with the first such RR.
https://youtu.be/q6Cc_vmlzwQ Far East Children's Railway in Khabarovsk Russia.
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A children's railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where teenagers learn railway professions. This phenomenon originated in the USSR and was greatly developed in Soviet times.
Many children's railways are still functioning in post-Soviet states and Eastern European countries. ...
This is beyond cute. They start in 5th grade? https://youtu.be/kDlsXUMqMxw Full-Fledged Railways Ran By Kids: Children's Railways Of Eastern Europe
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Who of us, as a kid, did not want to become a train driver? Not everyone manages to carry their love of the railway by the time they make a career choice, but what if I told you that there is a place on Earth, where being just a teenager you can already drive a real train?
https://youtu.be/x-yGtFsAYAQ RUSSIA: THE "LITTLE BEE" CHILDREN'S RAILWAY LINE
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Children have always played with train sets, dreaming of becoming train drivers when they grow up. But Russian youngsters have gone one better - they run their own railway line.
The "Little Bee" railway was dreamed-up under former dictator Josef Stalin to instruct children in the work ethic of communist society.
Now it's just for fun. But financial problems in the wake of communism's collapse are threatening to derail one of the Soviet Union's strangest - and most endearing - legacies.
This must be the biggest toy train in the world.
Most children only dream of becoming train drivers. These Russian youngsters are doing it for real.
Every summer vacation, over a thousand boys and girls get the chance to play with a train set their Western contemporaries could scarcely even imagine.
The "Little Bee" children's railway is one of more than 20 similar lines across Russia.
But despite the holiday atmosphere, the children's railways have a sinister past.
Stalin's transport minister set them up in the 1930s to train youngsters to keep the Soviet Union rolling if war took their fathers to the frontline.
Other children found themselves working the points and collecting tickets when both parents were locked away in prison camps.
But unlike other relics of Soviet childhood, the "Little Bee" still attracts scores of eager Russian kids.
Take Dima, who has been working this line for three summers now.
As the driver's assistant, he is fiercely proud of his work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_railwayhttp://www.dzd-ussr.ru/english/http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/towns/index-eng.html