Question about the trolleys

[early_morning]

Is the trolly in Misterogers different to the neighborhood? Because i've never seen an episode of misterogers, but i have seen the opening Misterogers Invitation and I noticed how the trolley on the canadian show was bigger. I was just wondering is that the same trolley did they modify it at all?

[Quinn]

I've always wanted a good history of the Trolleys - who made them, how many versions, and the number of them. (I've read a first-hand account of a unit being damaged during an on-set visit and immediately replaced with a backup.)

Here is, I believe, the original, so that one clearly wasn't modified after the early shows. I think this is in a museum in Canada; I found this picture years ago on the 'net.

[early_morning]

Thanks for sharing I didn't even know that.

[Quinn]

I came across a closer angle of the display above, which is at the CBC. The text on the left side of the card reads:

When CBC's Fred Rainsberry first met Fred Rogers, he was so convinced of his abilities that he invited Rogers to produce his concept for a TV show in Canada. Misterrogers aired on CBC-TV in 1963. The trolley was built and designed by Bill Ferguson and Bob Hackborn.

CBC Design, 1963.

[early_morning]

Yeah I caught that to.