Toy Train Sets

This classic wooden train set includes 101 pieces and is recommended for kids ages 3 and up. Included along with the rails, are also various play figures such as houses, a bridge, cars, people, and trees.

Chuggington is a popular children's television show for preschoolers. These wooden train sets, recommended for kids ages 3 and up, include a variety of 2-in-1 buildings that can be purchased additionally, that are featured in the show as well. These wooden tracks are universal and compatible with other train sets. A variety of track layouts are also available for view online at Learning Curve to vary play.

Utilizing SmartTalk technology, the tracks in this railway are plastic, but easily snapped together by young children. The engines are interactive, speaking several different phrases, depending on the accessory the train is in front of. The engines are also able recognize each other. Additional accessories are available for purchase. These engines are quite large, but will also run along the wooden tracks as well.

For your kids that are dinosaur fans in general or fans of Dinosaur Train, a Jim Henson television show on PBS, this playset marries two concepts many little boys love, trains and dinosaurs. With the push of a button, the train is motorized and capable of pulling two train cars. The set includes characters from the show, Buddy and Mr. Conductor. Lights and sounds are triggered on top of the mountain. This set is recommended for kids ages 3 and up.

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Recommended for kids ages 2-7, Geotrax is a remote control train that moves in both forward and reverse by moving the control forward or backward. Additional accessory sets can be purchased to add-on to this set as well. When the train is dropped onto the track, the wheels automatically align, making it easy for young children to put on and off the track.

For those of you with children ages 3 and up who love construction, or block building toys, Mega Bloks has two popular train sets from Thomas & Friends and Chuggington that encourage children to use their fine motor skills to follow the directions and build the train sets using blocks.

Though this isn't an actual train set, these plastic roadway tracks are also compatible with the wooden train sets, so definitely worth a mention in this category, making this a unique set to expand train sets into a town. Several different playsets like a fire house and town hall, conceptualized from the Richard Scarry children's television show, are also available to expand this set.

This wooden train set includes the iconic characters from the Thomas & Friends television program. Engines and several different accessory sets are available to add-on based on the child's interests.