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Just curious why do you say it would be a less immersive experience? Running a train system is no small thing. From drawing up time tables to ad hoc rerouting w

• mantas 4y ago
  At least in my city, the child railway used to be an isolated bit of decommissioned railway. A kilometer or two of a single track to do back-and-forth runs. While it still had to be great experience (it was closed many years before I was born), it was not that complicated :)
  • orthoxerox 4y ago
    It's still complicated, since your tiny train can run over some wino who fell asleep across your tiny track after finding a hole in the fence.
• wrp 4y ago
  The trains experience would be something children would voluntarily spend a few hours on occasionally. Farm life would be a daily responsibility that children would have no option of walking away from. I anticipate that children running a train could be very immersed in the moment, but the goal of the activity was to instill a sense of responsibility, and I'm wondering how effective that transitory experience would be.