There is a Charles Addams cartoon that shows a commuter on a typical New York area type commuter train looking up from his paper to see Pugsley with a Lionel transformer outside the window at very large scale, with a certain expression of 'anticipation' on his face...
This scene is in the Addams Family movie, with director Sonnenfeld's Hitchcockian moment being the commuter on Gomez's train...
Who didn't want to visit Gomez and Pugsley and see their layout? Addams Family Lionel Train Layout and Train Crashes - YouTube