11.  During practice, Erickson is like a little kid who just received a new electric train for Christmas.

12.  Electric trains were a favorite hobby, and he was said to keep an excellent one at his home.

13.  Electric trains cannot run all the way from Maine to Washington yet, officials said, because of a small section of track missing between two Boston stations.

14.  Father and son also shared a love of electric trains.

15.  He had rooms full of electric trains, his favorite thing, and owned a Rolls-Royce he hated to drive for fear of marring its finish.

16.  He sets up the village and an electric train for the holidays on a sheet of plywood in his Dalton home.

17.  He would play Monopoly and Battleship, and run electric trains, with the kids.

18.  Horses, once the mainstay of urban transportation, could be put out to pasture and replaced with electric trains and trolleys.

19.  It all ends, with unflagging inventiveness, in a shootout atop those electric trains.

20.  It includes an electric train made with Legos that has been donated by F.A.O. Schwarz.