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I recently noticed a discussion in another forum about the availability of a Mr. Rogers Neighborhood Trolley and wanted to share a project I have been working on for the last few weeks.
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The Pittsburgh Garden Railway Society built a large scale train layout for Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital in the 1990's. We have maintained it and seen it enjoyed by untold numbers of patients and visitors to the hospital.
In May of 2008 a new Children's Hospital will open. We have been asked to design and build a new layout that will be larger and, we hope, better than the original.
One of the tracks on the layout will be a point to point, something that is typically used with a trolley. Since Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was developed and filmed at WQED in Pittsburgh it made sense to use the trolley from Mr. Rogers in the layout.
None of the commercially available trolleys does a very good job of depicting the ones that were on the TV show so I decided to scratch build one for the hospital layout.
This photo shows the work done to date. There are a few other photos and details on construction on my web page at: http://www.trainelectronics.com/Trolley_MrRogers/
I plan on updating that web page as things progress.
dave
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The Pittsburgh Garden Railway Society built a large scale train layout for Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital in the 1990's. We have maintained it and seen it enjoyed by untold numbers of patients and visitors to the hospital.
In May of 2008 a new Children's Hospital will open. We have been asked to design and build a new layout that will be larger and, we hope, better than the original.
One of the tracks on the layout will be a point to point, something that is typically used with a trolley. Since Mr. Rogers Neighborhood was developed and filmed at WQED in Pittsburgh it made sense to use the trolley from Mr. Rogers in the layout.
None of the commercially available trolleys does a very good job of depicting the ones that were on the TV show so I decided to scratch build one for the hospital layout.
This photo shows the work done to date. There are a few other photos and details on construction on my web page at: http://www.trainelectronics.com/Trolley_MrRogers/
I plan on updating that web page as things progress.

dave