Trolley!

Look!  It's me, Gramma, and Aunt Colleen with Trolley!

Friends, a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.  Now, the whole entire day was pretty cool, but one of my favorite things (besides the Water Room on the Top Floor of the Children's Museum) was getting to meet Trolley... THE Trolley from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and the Neighborhood of Make Believe, where Daniel Tiger lives!

I can't believe I'm sitting at the controls of Trolley!

In case you're not familiar with Trolley or Mister Rogers or Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, or in case you've forgotten, Trolley started out as an inter-dimensional traveler between Mister Rogers' studio in his neighborhood and the Neighborhood of Make Believe.  The magical interdimensional part occurred somewhere inside the tunnel behind the wall at Mister Rogers' studio.

Trolley would definitely hafta decide to travel interdimensionally in that tunnel, because sometimes Trolley would just use the tunnel to go from the studio's living room to the fish tank or to the kitchen area, or to where the screen for Picture-Picture was.  Other times, Trolley would start out in the studio and wind up in the Neighborhood of Make Believe.

Trolley AND Mr. McFeely could both travel between the dimensions, relaying messages and bringing presents between Mister Rogers in his studio and the friends in the Neighborhood of Make Believe.

Pretty cool!

This is pretty much the best day ever so far!

I'm not sure how it all worked.  I'll hafta study some more of those Mister Rogers episodes to really see how it was done, and under which circumstances Trolley traveled interdimensionally, and under which circumstances Trolley would just go from the living room to the kitchen, for instance.

These days, Trolley is the main mode of transportation in the Neighborhood of Make Believe, where Daniel Tiger lives.  They don't drive cars or trucks in Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, although Mr. McFeely is there, and he drives his delivery bike. 

I tell a lie.  When there's a really big Speedy Delivery, Mr. McFeely has been known to drive a box-van.  Like the day the class voted on a swingset.  The swingset wouldn't have ever fit in the basket on Mr. McFeely's bike.  Not even in the Neighborhood of Make Believe.

But the riding around the Neighborhood to be done is done aboard Trolley.

I have a lot of admiration for Trolley.  You could say I'm a Big Trolley Fan.  So it was an INCREDIBLE day when I got to see Trolley for myself.

It's a day I will never, ever forget!