1911 MILTON BRADLEY AD, look at the names of the games, none are familiar

1954 REXALL DRUG CHRISTMAS AD

closeup of available toys

1912 CHRISTMAS TOY SALES

Note that these are not electric trains, but wind up mechanical units, which were still pretty popular.

TINKERTOYS

In 1914 Charles H. Pajeau designed a new toy called Tinkertoys, he invented the building set after seeing some kids building things with pencils and empty threat spools. The toy featured different sized wooden circles with holes in the middle and around the edges, it also had lots of wooden sticks to connect to the circles to build lots of different toys. Through the years there have been some changes, with the sticks being given bright colors and some different parts added, but it is still basically the same toy.