Lionels Home for the Holidays Train set will instantly transform your beautiful holiday decorations into something spectacular. The set is extremely easy to put together – simply snap the tracks together, set the train on top, and watch it go. The set comes with loads of curved train tracks as well as some straight ones as well, which allows you to make the train track as large or as small as youd like it. Overall, the track is a great size and can easily fit around the base of even a giant Christmas tree. While children will love the working headlight and various sounds the train makes (whistle, bells, chugging), adults will appreciate the detail in the design. This is more of a “decorative” train than a play toy. Kids in the testing centers loved helping build the track, connecting the cars, and setting the train in place, but this set is not meant to build and take apart continually. Children can easily control the train via the remote control and can make it move forward or backward, and they can also control the sounds. The train glides smoothly as long as the track can lay on a flat surface that is obstruction-free. Lionels Home for the Holidays train set is beautifully packaged and will make a great gift. One more big plus, the box that it comes in makes it easy to store the pieces once youre ready to pack it away.