Greasings I'll "second that", Roger. Mr. Roger's was a special kind of person both on and off Television.. I had the pleasure meeting him when, in 1973, my harmonica trio did a music spot for his Mr.Rogers' Neighborhood Show #1273 using his music store set as a main theme. It has aired as a repeater over the past 26+ years. While Mr. Rogers was getting his face put on, and waiting for WQED;s studio personnel to get the taping equipment set up, I had a bit of time to snoop around the neighborhood looking for the trolley. Held it in my hands. A no frills neatly painted wooden model which appeared to be in the G-scale garden RR size. It didn't have a pole, which I felt took away some authenticism. However, since the Neighborhood car is known to run forward/stop/reverse all in short snappy increments, I can appreciate the absence of a pole. I've seen a few commercially- produced G-scale renderings of this car in the past few years at hobby shops and Greenberg;s train shows. It's possible we may be seeing more production models of the Neighborhood trolley with the official retirement of Mr.Rogers. Bob Schmidt -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar -- Received: from smtpin-101-2.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.96) by storefull-613.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtpin-101-2.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) id 015381A6; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:46:23 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: saturnv@webtv.net Received: from meredith.dementia.org (MEREDITH.DEMENTIA.ORG [128.2.120.216]) by smtpin-101-2.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id C42DC120; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from meredith.dementia.org (meredith.dementia.org [128.2.120.216]) by meredith.dementia.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f814dt623341; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:39:55 -0400 Received: with LISTAR (v1.0.0; list pittsburgh-railways); Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:39:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsorter-105-1.iap.bryant.webtv.net (mailsorter-105-1.iap.bryant.webtv.net [209.240.198.119]) by meredith.dementia.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f814dr623335 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 00:39:53 -0400 Received: from storefull-177.iap.bryant.webtv.net (storefull-177.iap.bryant.webtv.net [209.240.199.33]) by mailsorter-105-1.iap.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA293C9 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from production@localhost) by storefull-177.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/mt.gso.26Feb98) id VAA25285; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:39:48 -0700 (PDT) X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhRFJasOI0sk2FGcr/qJkQBO9x0tPQIUKZas2xssSQNsTj7dl2NqQ2Vr5lw= From: ROGERTROLLY@webtv.net (ROGER Jenkins) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 21:39:48 -0700 (PDT) To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org Subject: [PRCo] LAST DAY FOR MR. ROGERS NEIBORHOOD 8--31--01 Message-ID: <21231-3B906694-755@storefull-177.iap.bryant.webtv.net> In-Reply-To: "Bob Rathke" 's message of Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:45:23 -0500 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) X-listar-version: Listar v1.0.0 Sender: pittsburgh-railways-bounce@lists.dementia.org Errors-To: pittsburgh-railways-bounce@lists.dementia.org X-original-sender: ROGERTROLLY@webtv.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Listar version 1.0.0 X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: X-list: pittsburgh-railways Today , Fred Rogers hung up his sweater in the closet for the last time and officially retired. And the trolley ran its last run across the town that appeared to be in HO scale. Originating from Station KWEQ in Pittsburg since it started [correct me if I got the call letters wrong ] for about 40 years I think , the original trolley was a much larger size than at the end. The show will be in repeats and syndication hereafter. Sad to see the show end as my kids watched it years ago as I did when I could. He had some of the kids in the audience draw their version of the trolley and he showed them at the end of te show and some were quite realistic looking. Years ago he even went out and had some of PAT'S cars parade by in the 70s when they carried those crazy paintschemes . And he took us on rides on some of them. We will miss you Mr. Rogers !!!