My wife and I were discussing getting some Mr. Rogers videos for our daughter. It made me start to wonder what happened to Mr. Rogers' original Neighborhood Trolley after the show ended and he passed on. I tried Google without much luck. Does anyone here know where the Trolley went? I hope it's running in a museum somewhere and not stuffed in a box with a bunch of old television props.
Mr Rogers' Neighborhood Trolley
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I remember an article back in the 80s in MR that described how the author had reconfigured the scenery on the original neighborhood set, making an unpowered HO scale version of the trolley from a Tyco one that was pulled across the scene with fishing line. Pretty cool stuff...
Why would they want an unpowered Trolley? 
I know someone here on the forum built a Trolley replica at one time but I can't for the life of me remember who. (Even after I PM'ed them about it when I first saw the pics)ops:
I know someone here on the forum built a Trolley replica at one time but I can't for the life of me remember who. (Even after I PM'ed them about it when I first saw the pics)
ops:Cannonball said:Why would they want an unpowered Trolley?
The model was an open air type car, in HO scale at the time it was just too small to put a motor in it.
I saw the same artical, it also described the efforts the crew put into pulling the trolly at just the right speed.
Rick
Rick
Ah, now THAT makes sense!CCT70 said:
Still hope I can find out what happened to the real trolley though.
Well, CRed e-mailed PBS, so I'm sure he will post the reply if he gets one.CCT70 said:
If they don't know, it may be lost to the anals of history.
Or maybe there is some oral history research to be done.
There are a number of transportation-related Mr. Rogers urban myths: one of which is that some car thieves stole Mr. Rogers' car, but then discovered his name on the registration and returned it, with a note explaining that they were sorry!
There are a number of transportation-related Mr. Rogers urban myths: one of which is that some car thieves stole Mr. Rogers' car, but then discovered his name on the registration and returned it, with a note explaining that they were sorry!
There are a bunch of rumors about Mr. Rogers as I found out in my search for Trolley. I think every one of them was debunked as well.jetrock said:
My favorite was that he had been a sniper in Viet Nam and had a skull tattooed on his arm for every man that he had killed. That's why he always wore long sleeves. Yeah, OK. You're going to look at Mr. Rogers and then tell me with a straight face that he was capable of anything more violent than swating a fly..... Right.