Dad also gets to sit down with his kid engrossed with the putting together of the different parts of the toy trains wooden packed in the box from the store where he bought the toy. This activity may be like the assembling of a jigsaw puzzle since the only guide Dad and his kid have to work on, in the forming of the toy is the picture on the box. All the many parts are packed mixed in the box and needs much patience in searching as the wooden toy train slowly takes form.

Dad of course has some experience in the past in the assembling of his own wooden toy train for children in his boyhood, although that was so many years ago. He remembers his own dad helping him with the task, having difficulty crawling on the floor looking for the train parts then. It was because his father before was quite a stout fellow, and just getting down on the floor took so much effort for him.

Good that Dad now is the athletic type and stays slim and fit all the time, so getting down on the floor is a breeze for him just like a kid, busily searching for the train parts he needs for the train assembly. The picture of Dad crawling with his kid on the floor still in his office wear that he has not bothered to remove upon arriving home fascinates Mom so much. She hurries to get the camera to get an action shot of her loved ones down on the living room floor engrossed in getting the toy train joined car by car.
 
This toy train made of wood Dad bought recently may be among the last of the wooden types of toy trains. The company making the toys is contemplating to shift to the use of recyclable plastic in making the train toys as a contribution to the environmental movement of preserving the forests to improve the global environment, much affected by the changing temperatures. Wood as material for the building of things, like toys, may no longer be in use soon and toy manufacturers will have to shift to the use of recycled plastic.

The shift to what will be then called as plastic toy trains, replacing the present wooden trains, will not really be a problem to the manufacturers, as the toys will sell just the same. Kids will always be kids, anytime, anywhere.