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I have a cousin who turns three this year, she seems fairly harmless around trains. I passed the Brio collection that my brother and I built up as kids on to her, and there's not a single day when it isn't being played with! Considering some of those pieces are 20 years old I think it was a good investment. She'll happily stand and watch my HO layout in action, though I've not let her drive it (yet) - think she's a bit young to cope with the idea of "you have to stop or you'll drive that train off the end of the layout". She's got past the phase of grabbing at models after a few gentle (verbal) explanations of why they need to be handled carefully (amazingly this seems to work - they understand a lot more than most realise!) <br /> <br />The tricky part is when they come into contact with larger-scale trains. LGB locos are very, very solid and will do more damage to anything they hit than to themselves. You have to keep a close eye for anything being "abandoned" on the rails, or feet too close to the line. On the other hand, seeing what it does to obstacles might be a good method of teaching them to be safe around the real thing - "It broke that pencil in half and isn't even scratched"
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