Garden Railway Forum

Like many American kids of the late 20th century I grew up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and (of course) enjoying the trolley that served to transition between different parts of the show. I'd mostly forgotten but between that and Thomas I'm realizing I watched a lot of model trains on TV which helped fuel my hobby as a kid (and my desire for larger-scale models!).
I found this article about the creation of the HO scale trolley for the opening title sequence, with a few tidbits about the large-scale trolley: http://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/publ ... index.html

Were any of you inspired by model trains you saw in movies or TV?