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Orson Welles once said that making a movie is the biggest electric train set a boy could have.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2026 Enervated cuteness and tryhard sincerity define a whole new wave of musicians, from Pittsburgh rockers feeble little horse to cringe-pop upcycler Worldpeace DMT to SoundCloud producer MASSI, whose songs spill with the tiny adorable detail of a toy train set.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026 Below it a track resembling an oversized toy train set runs through the room, delivering equipment from one robot to another.—
Katia Riddle,
NPR,
5 June 2026 The oven in her kitchen was dotted with alphabet magnets; a wooden train set covered the floor of the adjoining room.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
23 Mar. 2026 In his Ocean Avenue apartment, Batchelor has a practice space and room for dozens of trumpets and his model-train set.—
Daniel Yadin,
Curbed,
11 Feb. 2026 So, Ralph's father shipped the train set to his cousins in Chicago.—
Joe Donlon,
CBS News,
1 Feb. 2026 Perhaps more unusually, Biden was given a sterling silver train set worth $7,750 from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and a road bike and two crates of dates worth $7,089 from United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.—
Matthew Lee The Associated Press,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026 The tree was decorated with silver tinsel and had an old-school train set circling.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
23 Dec. 2025